Get into the Groove: The Importance of Finding Your Rhythm

Vanessa Blakeslee
10 min readApr 5, 2020
Gypsy Sa’har, Orlandy Bellydance Performance Company

Rhythm, Part One:

The importance of rhythm in great writing is often overlooked in prose workshops and lectures, and I’m perplexed as to why. Among poets the discussion is par for the course. Rhythm as a building block of lyricism is inarguably a crucial facet of literature, no matter the form, its role as integral as that within music and dance. So why do we…

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Vanessa Blakeslee

American fiction writer, essayist, literary critic. Award-winning author of Perfect Conditions: stories (2018), Foreword Reviews Editors’ Choice (Gold).