Experiments in Style: Unassertive

A dramatic monologue of sorts

Terry Freedman

Sep 10, 2023

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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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But in a nutshell it’s this: I’ve been taking a short and very bland story and rewriting it in different styles. This time I’ve chosen to do it as a dramatic monologue by an unassertive person, one with a bit of an inferiority complex. What’s a dramatic monologue? All…

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