Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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Experiments in style: The Disk Jockey
Experiments in Style

Experiments in style: The Disk Jockey

Yes, it's Top of the Flops!

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In this week’s experiment, Terry puts on his white suit and his dancing shoes as he gyrates to the sounds of Top Of The Flops

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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…
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The aim of these experiments is to explore how different styles and …

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