Comments on: Question of the Week: Style

By: Larry Kolopajlo

Larry Kolopajlo — Sun, 16 Dec 2007 21:56:03 +0000

My writing is undefined by style and under-stood because I simply slap my feelings on pad of paper in much the same way an artist slaps his emotions on a canvass. Is this writing or is it a verbal painting of my psychoanalytic metaphysical being?

By: mikel k poet

mikel k poet — Fri, 16 Mar 2007 09:33:02 +0000

my writing style is

By: Man Martin

Man Martin — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 23:38:23 +0000

I may be way late on responding to this one - just learned about this site. I write in 200 word bursts from 6:00 to 6:30 every morning. Although constraining, I believe it imparts a great deal of energy to my finished work. I simply don’t have time for leisurely prose.

By: Simon Haynes

Simon Haynes — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:59:55 +0000

I write in a very plain style, and I don’t put a whole lot of description in either. I polish like crazy, usually going through 20-30 drafts with a red pen by my side, only stopping when I no longer need to make corrections.

By: n.l. belardes

n.l. belardes — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 23:52:33 +0000

I’d like to think my style is kind of like the back of a box of cereal meets funkytown.

Kind of puffy and disco funk.

If I were a record I’d be freakin’ DJ mixable.

Susan, is it true you were on a ship filled with nude nuns? And how could you tell they were nuns?

Funkadelic.

By: jon armstrong

jon armstrong — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 18:13:58 +0000

I don’t think of what I do as style, but read it aloud and have my prose read aloud to me. I listen for pleasing sounds. Rhythms that start and stop — in ways expected and not. I enjoy the accumulation of phrases that suggest harmony.

By: Kimberly

Kimberly — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 14:12:17 +0000

Hi Gail! (wow - my first shout-out on LitPark - don’t I feel like the coolest!)

DePaul was awesome (and not to be confused with DePauw - DePaul doesn’t have Soro-Frat houses, the Greeks only get lunch tables in the cafeteria because the open campus neighborhood of Lincoln Park won’t allow houses!) and they DO have a wonderful theatre department! I’d encourage all you Chicagoans to stop by and visit the Merle Reskin Theatre (the old Blackstone) and check it out!! So many of my own class’ alumni are famous film, stage & TV stars now… it’s totally humbling!

Anyway - I’m really enjoying this whole LitPark thing! Thanks for the tip-off, Mr. Henderson (and Sue, for letting me borrow him from time to time!)

By: Grant Bailie

Grant Bailie — Wed, 14 Mar 2007 12:43:41 +0000

I am at a complete loss on how to answer the question but I would like to say I completely love Ms Crane’s husband’s painting.

By: Juliet

Juliet — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:41:43 +0000

It’s like home having both you AND Lance back.

My writing style … I tend to mill around words and thoughts inside for days and weeks, completely unknowingly. Then one day it’s like a volcanic warming deep within, and from my fingertips flow word after word after word.
When it cools, I try to shape it a bit, before it’s set in stone.

By: Noria

Noria — Tue, 13 Mar 2007 22:03:38 +0000

Amy W - I would hope style evolves as we evolve as writers. Sure, it’s possible to get stuck in a stylistic rut (or to get slapped with a stylistic label). But, hopefully, if we continue to push ourselves and take chances and “fail better” that won’t happen. My style’s been changing lately. When I began writing, I was surpised that I was such a realist (a wacky, absurdist realist) — I’m a great fan of Angela Carter, and I suppose I thought I’d write in a more surreal, speculative vein, as she did. Maybe absurdist realism was what my first book wanted to be (I believe that every piece of writing has its own logic). But now I find that the shape of reality in my writing is becoming more plastic, and I’m becoming more the writer I initially thought I’d be. It feels like a natural progression.