Writing Flavors
So when you go to art school part of what they teach you in the later courses is developing your own style. Honestly it should be the first thing they teach you but fundamentals are fundamentals. Anyway, as you can expect, the same goes for creative writing. They’ll call it a “voice” rather than a style but it’s no different when used for developing a flavor that readers not only recognize but expect when they read your stuff.
Folks don’t read every single book for the academic prose. They read them because they expect certain things to appear or be presented in a way that they enjoy writing and is entertaining for their audience. You are allowed to read things for fun! Just the same, you don’t expect all the art in a gallery to be photo-realistic oil paintings. There are all manner of styles and techniques that people find appealing and it’s up to you - the person making it - to develop something not only unique but that you enjoy creating.
I’m not sure I have a style in either art or writing. For design I always had to recreate something else or another style for a client and with writing I’ve just been trying to keep the prose grounded enough to make sense. My absolute inability to spell (even these are spell checked) properly has me more worried about typos than dialog tags and repetitive words. Copying a visual style is way easier than a written one. (A thing I think that the ChatballGTZ stuff will also have trouble doing for a while.)
Anyway, the point of this little post was that I’ve been cleaning up some writing I started back in October to get it ready to submit to some places and I just had to babble about style because it’s apparently a thing I’m worried about right now. lol.
Two years and a half ago I found read.write.as The first post that popped up there was yours.
I enjoyed your writing style since the first paragraph. So, that encouraged me to open a blog there and start writing--that blog is now gone, several that followed faced the same fate, but the current one is going well.
Your writing triggered a chain of events that led me to write almost everyday.
I hope that helps with the worries.