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Challenge #403
Oct. 11th, 2024 09:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shivverHere's me trying to get back on track and keeping this up. Sorry for slacking!
Let's do an exercise in style. First, go find something someone else wrote. It can be fiction or non-fiction.
Then, choose a paragraph from it - at least two sentences but not more than four, not counting dialogue.
Now, rewrite the paragraph in a different style - your own style (meaning, how you'd write the paragraph), or you can mimic someone else's style. You could change the point of view. You could even write the paragraph for a different target audience, e.g. change an adult book to a children's book, or change a regular novel into a professorial lecture or a campfire story.
Important point: Don't change the dialogue. Dialogue comes from the character, and you don't want to change the characters. Prose comes from the author, and that's what we're looking at here.
Finally, when you're done, compare what you wrote to the original. How do they differ? Did they use different words? Is one style more active or descriptive than the other? Imagine the rest of the story built using the style you used - does it work? Does it make it better or worse?
Let's do an exercise in style. First, go find something someone else wrote. It can be fiction or non-fiction.
Then, choose a paragraph from it - at least two sentences but not more than four, not counting dialogue.
Now, rewrite the paragraph in a different style - your own style (meaning, how you'd write the paragraph), or you can mimic someone else's style. You could change the point of view. You could even write the paragraph for a different target audience, e.g. change an adult book to a children's book, or change a regular novel into a professorial lecture or a campfire story.
Important point: Don't change the dialogue. Dialogue comes from the character, and you don't want to change the characters. Prose comes from the author, and that's what we're looking at here.
Finally, when you're done, compare what you wrote to the original. How do they differ? Did they use different words? Is one style more active or descriptive than the other? Imagine the rest of the story built using the style you used - does it work? Does it make it better or worse?
