Have you ever wondered?
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Have you ever wondered?
Wondering what type of writer you are? Be it the first, third or narrative speaker?
As I look over the writings of various authors that I would like to emulate I find myself asking, 'What type of writer am I? Where does my writing style fit in?'
By this I mean my writing style. Not so much about the first or third person, but more of how I structure the sentences, the selection of certain words vs spreading out the meaning. How compact vs length.
Yes I do catch myself (later on) finding that I don't like the structure overall. I find myself re-looking and saying there are to many; 'had', 'to', 'and', and so on. These may be in the form of speech vs descriptions.
To tell me that it comes from both experience and time, I understand. Which given in this day and age is becoming harder as we find ourselves wanting to fly at supersonic speed over even the littlest of things and forget to just go outside and enjoy the moment.
The days of 'idle minds' is being whittled down to a 'constant need for speed'. But I'm starting to digress.
My point is 'What type of writing style' am I developing? Is it one of the many types that writer 'poo poo' saying the structure is all wrong? Or is it a middle ground of where I'm hearing its a bit of mixing of past and present pretense as I tell the story and none are willing to tell me of my 'learning' mistakes, only to find once published and left aside (which I have done on several stories to re-look) only to find I have still failed to capture both clerical and structural errors.
Yes I try to give it time like a bottle of wine. But even some bottles do not ferment correctly or are just plain sour.
I wish to learn. The question is 'Am I on the right path?'
Ibi