writing style

Creating Scenes in Fiction: An Example Using an Historic Photo

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One of the many great paradoxes in writing fiction well is that dramatized in scene fiction can evoke reader involvement and emotions better than narrative telling. The photo of a lynching of two blacks in the south in the 1930’s is appalling. For a fiction writer, such an image hides strong human emotions; how does a writer capture feelings and create a significant reader reaction through prose fiction? A fiction writer has the opportunity in such a scene to create in a reader a multidimensional sense of what might have been the living thoughts and emotions at the moment.   Then, by objective … Read More…

Style of Writing and Literary Fiction

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There is a common belief that the best literary writing style is invisible to the reader.  This has a fundamental, but not all-inclusive, truth to it.  In writing great literary fiction, the reader should be engaged in the story in ways that leave no mental space to consider the writer’s style type or quality.  Yet the style of writing and story telling should register with readers so that at the end of the reading, they  know they’ve had special, unforgettable reads that are unmistakeably due to the author’s style, personality and skills. Style is a way of using language and … Read More…