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Stuart Gilmour

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Writing speculative fiction, science fiction and fantasy. Living in central Tokyo with two rescue cats for the past 15 years.

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Stuart Gilmour's Blog: Writing at the World's End

Who's afraid of long sentences?

A short story of mine was just rejected by a SF/Fantasy magazine. Along with the usual form rejection I was lucky enough to receive some feedback, and one of their points was that my sentences are too long. Yes, they directly said that!

I have always assumed that sentence length was a matter of style. Each person writes with their own cadence, which we change when we want things to be "lyrical" (e. Read more of this blog post »

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Published on July 26, 2026 01:32 • Tags: craft, writing

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Pavane

by Keith Roberts

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