What do you prefer, keeping one style that is your strength, or do you pick and choose depending on what strikes your muse? I am in the midst of writing several styles of gardening articles for various newspapers and magazines just to get some feedback. I've already timed out the topics so if any article is picked up it would be in step with publishing deadlines in late spring or early summer. bj
I write better at informative types of writing, like an article or whatever. Not so good at narrative, but I'm working on it.
Cool. I am the opposite, I can write informative articles but my prose wants in, so I have done hybrid styling to keep the reader interested in a subject that may have already been covered. I mean there's just so many ways to explain winter pruning of apple trees, but if presented in a unique style even seasoned gardeners will read just for the enjoyment factor. Companion topic to all interested. What's another way to say: I love you. (Yeah I know, Valentine's is almost here, but what the hell.) Hey, better to get points for style if you don't got substance in your current relationship, eh? 8I
I write like a kid with a learning disability -- very sloppy lol or do you mean online writing? Well good speller, need a bit of work with structure.
lol post was open to interpretation, I set no boundaries. humorous writing's all good too. I am easily amused. 8I
my writing style is somewhat light and fun. I make it conversational. But I have also written in some other styles too. I like experimenting, but if there was one style that I'd say defined my writing, it's humorous first-person narrative. check out an excerpt from something I'm working on that I have posted. cheers akin!
Any writing I've done and has been any good has been in a style that I like to call " Gibson Purple ".
I generally write in a horrible brooding cynical style that only really connects with things I dislike or have contempt for. If I try to describe anything positive I generally sound insane or just retarded. As for humour, people seem to find my stuff funny, not in a laugh out loud way, but they like my turn of phrase and stuff. That said, I haven't written anything in a while.
If you write for several magazines - you'll know that generally they have a "house style" and so any features or articles writer will generally adopt the in-house-style for that particular publisher - I generally tend to write a lot differently when I am sending a letter to viz or the beano or whizzer-and-chips than if I am sending in a synopsis of the reconciliation of the russians and chinese for the sunday observer
I like to write fiction and I have two fav things to do 1. Write poeticly and 2. to get the reader so attached to one character (not just the main) and have something happen to him/ her so u feel the pain the people in the story do, just evoking feeling or you feel the joy, either way.
I usually just slag people off in my writing but sometimes if I am happy with someone I dont slag them off. Other times I vary my style by writing about hampsters and slagging them off rather than people. For example that hampster called "Joey" thats in the petshop down the road, is a right tosser !
