Alexander Odendahl

A place for those who love fantasy enough to study it.

My favorite way to analyze books is through sentences. I believe sentences are where the real magic happens, and I don't just mean the construction of a setting or the dialogue in a scene. I mean that even the "heady" concepts like theme, world, characters arcs, and story structure all begin at the level of the sentence. The reason for this is that the sentence is the true connection point between writer and reader.

The most abstract of concepts, however beautifully conveyed, are really an accumulation of sentences.

So in this channel, I'll analyze books and look at the craft of writing, with a focus on how sentences lead to meaning, power, and, to use the academic term, awesomeness.