{"id":25866,"date":"2021-03-02T07:07:57","date_gmt":"2021-03-02T11:07:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/?page_id=25866"},"modified":"2022-12-21T08:53:02","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:53:02","slug":"quotes-on-how-to-write-good-transitions","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.wyliecomm.com\/writing-tips\/how-to-organize-an-article\/feature-story-structure\/how-to-write-good-transitions\/quotes-on-how-to-write-good-transitions\/","title":{"rendered":"Quotes on how to write good transitions"},"content":{"rendered":"

What writers and others say<\/h2>\n

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“Life is pleasant. Death is peaceful. It’s the transition that’s troublesome.”<\/h5>\n
\u2015 Isaac Asimov<\/h6>\n
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“Every chapter must end with a cliffhanger. On the spectrum of cliffhangers, the best are those involving physical danger. Next best are perceived threats \u2014 a mysterious shadow, a scream, the sight of a gun, the earth rumbling. Last on the list is the moderately acceptable dramatic realization, such as ‘he’s been lying to us all along’ or ‘she’s the real spy.’”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Franklin W. Dixon, the pen name used by the various authors of The Hardy Boys novels, in “The Writer\u2019s Guide to Hardy Boys Rack Books”<\/h6>\n
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“Transitions are critically important. I want the reader to turn the page without thinking she\u2019s turning the page. It must flow seamlessly.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Janet Evanovich, author of the Stephanie Plum series including Sizzling Sixteen<\/em> <\/em><\/h6>\n
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“Don’t stop them with any bumps in the road. Any spot in your structure that makes readers go ‘huh?’ is an invitation to quit reading.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 David D. Fryxell, freelance writer, in Writer’s Digest<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“Words do not create transition. Ideas do.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Peter Jacobi, journalism professor emeritus at Indiana University, in The Magazine Article: How to think it, plan it, write it<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“Superfluous transitions harm your prose because they call unnecessary attention to its mechanics. They shout, ‘Look! Now I’m making a transition! Are you all with me?’”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Nancy Kress, science fiction writer, in Writer’s Digest<\/em><\/h6>\n
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“If we encounter thus, therefore, consequently<\/em> and the like, we know that the next statement should follow logically from whatever has already been presented. If we see nevertheless, still, all the same<\/em> or the like, we must be prepared for a statement that reverses direction.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Bonnie J. F. Meyer, Ph.D., professor of Educational Psychology, Penn State<\/h6>\n
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“The two capital secrets in the art of prose composition are these: first the philosophy of transition and connection; or the art by which one step in an evolution of thought is made to arise out of another: all fluent and effective composition depends on the connections; secondly; the way in which sentences are made to modify each other; for the most powerful effects in written eloquence arise out of this reverberation, as it were, from each other in a rapid succession of sentences.”<\/h5>\n
\u2014 Thomas de Quincy, English author and intellectual, best known for his book Confessions of an English Opium-Eater<\/em><\/h6>\n
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