I am not a monkey
Illiterary fiction excels at showing, showing with a profundity of adverbs and exceptional adjectives. Dictionary inspired descriptions that convey the most erudite worlds. With copious plot twists, illiterary fiction is surprisingly uninspiring.
Her face, bilious …
Never use an adverb to modify dialogue. Don’t use words like ejaculate and vociferate. Even better: Completely unmodified dialogue.
“Where are you?”
“I’m over here.
“What are you doing over there?”
“My God, I’m full of methane.”
“Why don’t you …
It’s only a matter of time before self-publishing becomes the next traditional publishing, an outmoded, outdated form of publishing. You-publishing is the next wave of publishing. With you-publishing, you publish my novels and collections of short stories. You-publishing can be …
My weekly supply of adderal
A frenetic writing style that exposes the reader to a wide range of topics and rapid fire thoughts. The primary writing style of Kathy Acker. The fiction excerpt is a contemporary-crime-thriller-historical science fiction-literary romance.
Kim
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Die technik des sandwich-making dramas
Like all great American novels, this novel will have numerous subplots, illustrated by the plot-lines diagram, including five thousand words devoted to a sandwich-making subplot in which a sandwich is systematically assembled and unassembled multiple times until …
Purple Prose All in my Brain
Dense, ambiguously descriptive style. Purple haze is sensually evocative beyond any precision. In the following excerpt the narrator is deeply moved by the exquisite beauty of some things and other stuff.
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Surrender yourself to the random nature of the universe and allow yourself to effortlessly write Hamlet–eventually.
Hamlet complements ghost without the prospective diagram. A back works over our nonsense. Near the designer boggles the look. Can ghost consent against the
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Moments that grip, surprise, twist, amuse, frighten, and seduce have no business in fiction. The unpublishable writer must consider half-baked, haphazard moments. The story won’t elevate to the level of unreadable unless it’s stuffed full of these moments.
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Fiction writing style that features repetition and more repetition.
Tale of a Whale
The Chopsticks style was pioneered by Fred Schonell and popularized by William S. Gray and Zerna Sharpin of Dick and Jane fame. Its popularity peaked during the …
To connect with contemporary readers, inject brand names into your fiction.
Brand Names from 19th Century
Contemporary example of the branded writing style:
Darcy Summer slipped her blue JC Penney bathrobe off her shoulders and hung it on the Restoration
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