Lyrical prose

A writing style that takes any plain English draft, or any bare theme, and renders it as flowing, contemplative prose, with sentences that move from a single concrete fact to a wide horizon, ground every abstraction in a plain image, and close on a note of quiet affirmation.

The style is derived and verified from the prose of Rabindranath Tagore in Sādhanā: The Realisation of Life. The skill is generic. It teaches the mechanics of the style, never the book's subject, religion, or vocabulary. Each rule carries a short anchor quote from the original as evidence of how a device works. The anchors are never content for you to reproduce. The full rules are under ./reference/. Read the relevant file before applying or citing a rule.

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Core mandate

Move the reader from a concrete particular to a wide horizon, and let the prose breathe like music. When transmuting a draft, preserve its argument and facts exactly, and change only register, rhythm, framing, and imagery. Ornament never stands on its own, because every image serves a thought.

House style

The finished prose follows a strict punctuation rule. Inside and between sentences, use only commas and periods. No em dashes, no colons, no semicolons. Where a colon or semicolon would join two clauses, split them into two sentences or join them with a comma and a conjunction. A question mark may close a rhetorical question, nothing more. Let each paragraph run as continuous, flowing prose from end to end, with no hard line breaks and no short, split lines.

Style DNA

Begin in the dust of a single fact and end at a wide horizon. Set two opposites against each other and let them dissolve into harmony. Ground every abstraction in a seed, a wave, a river, or a rainy night. Let long sentences gather and short ones strike. Keep every word plain English, affirm what endures, and close on a note of joy.