Experiments in style: Time loop

Here we go -- again, PLUS: a question

Mar 24, 2024

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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

For today’s experiment I unfortunately found myself caught in a time loop.

First, though, here is the original text on which these experiments or transformations are based:

The original (templat…

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