Tag: Verlyn Klinkenborg

The Tyranny of “Style”

Post author By Darin
Post date January 18, 2024

Style has become both a fetish and a marketing device. We read or, more likely in today’s podcast- and YouTube-dominated world, hear and see over and over again that we have to discover our style as if it’s some buried treasure or a form of therapeutic self-realization (the alternative formulation, “we have to find our […]

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Style

Post author By Darin
Post date January 9, 2024

But what’s a writer’s “style”?Style is an expression of the interest you take in the making of every sentence.It emerges, almost without intent, from your engagement with each sentence.It’s the discoveries you make in the making of the prose itself. We assume that style is self-expression.It can be, but only in this sense:It’s the fusion […]