Cheer down: How to create drama in your prose without shouting.

Cheer down: How to create drama in your prose without shouting.

There’s nothing wrong with dramatic nonfiction prose. But you don’t create it by SHOUTING. When novice nonfiction writers want to show how excited they are, they write prose that baldly and obviously declares its excitement. For example, their text is littered with: The more you write stuff like this, the more the reader resists. The…