Writing style
From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia
"It would be hard to find any reputable literary critic today who would care to be caught defending as an idea the old antithesis of style versus content. On this issue a pious consensus prevails. Everyone is quick to avow that style and content are indissoluble, that the strongly individual style of each important writer is an organic aspect of his work and never something merely "decorative."" --"On Style" (1966) - Susan Sontag |
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Writing style is the manner in which a writer addresses a matter in prose, a manner which reveals the writer's personality, or 'voice.' It is particularly evident in the choices the writer makes in syntactical structures, diction, and figures of thought.
In fiction, style is the manner in which the author tells the story. Along with plot, character, theme, and setting, style is considered one of the fundamental components of fiction.
See also
- Ars Poetica
- Bulwer–Lytton Fiction Contest
- Cliché
- Creative nonfiction
- Creative writing
- Fiction
- Fiction-writing modes
- How I Wrote Certain of my Books
- Literary award
- Literary merit
- Narrative
- Purple prose
- Readability
- Script doctor
- Show, don't tell
- Schwulst
- Style
- Style guide
- Stylistic device
- Stylistics (field of study)
- Verbosity
- Writing method
- Writer's voice
- Writing process
- Writing style
See also
- Creative nonfiction
- Fiction
- Fiction writing
- "Politics and the English Language," by George Orwell
- Prose
- Show, don't tell
- Stream of consciousness writing
- Style (fiction)
- Style guide
- Writer's voice
- Writing
- Writing process