Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

Eclecticism: Reflections on literature, writing and life

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Experiments in Style: two versions of a story
Experiments in Style

Experiments in Style: two versions of a story

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Experiments in Style is a project of mine in which I attempt to take the same basic story and rework it in different ways. My reasons for doing so, and some background, may be found 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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3 years ago · 2 likes · 6 comments · Terry Freedman

In today’s newsletter I’ve written two versions of a story. One is a paratext rendering, while the other is wholly in the passive voice.

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