Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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Experiments in style: Synchysis
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Experiments in Style

Experiments in style: Synchysis

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Greetings!

If youโ€™re new here then you can find out all about this project of mine 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 writersโ€ฆ
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But in a nutshell itโ€™s this: Iโ€™ve been taking a short and very bland story and rewriting it in different styles. This time Iโ€™ve chosen Synchysis. Whatโ€™s that? All will be revealed after the template below, which is the short story Iโ€™ve been working with.

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