Experiments in style: Official Letter

From the local Residents' Association

Nov 12, 2023

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One of the things I’ve been trying out is reworking a piece of text into a completely different style. A full exposition and explanation are given here:

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature and life

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…

3 years ago · 2 likes · 6 comments · Terry Freedman

In today’s experiment I’d like to tell the story in the style, of an official, not to say officious, letter. First, though, here is the original text on which these experiments or transformations are bas…

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