Experiment in style: Litotes

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Terry Freedman

Aug 20, 2023

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Experimenting with styles

Introduction A good way of improving your writing skills is to try reworking texts into a completely different style or genre. To some extent this overlaps with parody writing, which I intend to explore in a separate post, but as a quick example, consider this. In Brand X Fiction, a collection of parodies of fiction writers…

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But in a nutshell it’s this: I’ve been taking a short and very bland story and rewriting it in different styles. This time I’ve chosen to do it as litotes. What’s that? All will be revealed after the template below, which is the short story I’ve been working with.

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