Chapter 15 in Rules for Writers by Diana Hacker talks about how to use varity in your writing. The first thing mentioned is avoiding using only simple sentences. Using simple sentences can make your writing seem boring, repetetive, and monotonous. A way to help with this is to rearrange the sentence by moving around the adverbial modifiers. Usually moving them around to the begining of the sentense works well. Another stratagy is inverting sentences. This shouldn't be used except in formal contex or if it sounds natural. An inverted sentence doesn't follow the normal subject-verb-object pattern.
When I write I often try to change up the begining of my sentences, if I notice that they are becoming repeative. I have however never thought about using inverted sentences. The next time I find my writing to be repetative and boring I'll try to see if I can try out that stratagy.
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