The Sound of Writing

“Your style needs to have good, natural, steady rhythm, or people won’t keep reading your work…Next comes melody-which, in literature, means the appropriate arrangement of the words to match the rhythm..Next is harmony-the internal mental sounds that support the words..Then comes free improvisation..All I have to do is get into the flow. Finally comes your “performance” and feeling you have succeeded in reaching a place that is new and meaningful. And if it goes well, you get to share that sense of elevation with your readers (your audience).” Murakami (Griffith, 2009).