One thing that doesn't get talked a lot in this board is style. How did famous writers create and improve their style? How did they learn to "write well"?I don't believe in the genius theory where they instantly knew how to write well because it was only a tiny part of what made them successful, the rest being an extreme amount of work. But what work?
>>24869167>How did famous writers create and improve their style?Reading and writing every day.Really you have to ask this?
>>24869167>How did famous writers create and improve their style?By taking runny shits 94 times a day.
>>24869279You could write for a 100 years and barely improve your style. There's more to it than "just writing"
>>24869167>>24869339Read works with an interesting style. Rip 'em off, especially if you're in the middle of reading something good and feel inspired. But if you want to practice style in a cleanroom environment or imagine how the cavemen started composing unga bunga verses, then pay attention to the structure and flow of a sentence, which is determined by your syntax, punctuation, and word choice; poetic devices also have use in prose. Read out loud to yourself and re-write where there's friction (i.e., where it reads awkwardly), and change up sentence structure based on what requires emphasis (e.g., forming and breaking patterns). Think that you want the writing to flow but you don't necessarily want monotony. This can all go along with rip-off practice anyway.
>>24869339utterly wrong
