Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

Experiments in Style

Experimenting with styles

An explanation, two reviews and two examples

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Terry Freedman
Oct 27, 2022
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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, Leslie Johnson reduces Poe’s …

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