I can't write in a whole lot of different styles, trying to please the highbrows one time and the lowbrows the next. I pretty much have a basic style I employ.
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I personally do not write highbrow music. If I do, it's by accident.
When I started writing it was kind of hard getting people to do my stuff. They' say they couldn't do my style.
I'm always aware of writing around things I can't do, and I've come to think that that's actually what 'style' is - an avoidance of your deficiencies.
I don't have a style. I just try to write what the story demands.
A terrific exercise is to take a paragraph of someone's writing who has a really strong style, and using their structure, substitute your own words for theirs, and see how they achieved their effects.
I used to write fiction, non-fiction, fiction, non-fiction and have a clear pattern because I'd need a break from one style when going into the next book.
I'm learning a lot, and I'm trying to make it so that every time I write, it's better than the last time I've written.
In composing, as a general rule, run your pen through every other word you have written; you have no idea what vigor it will give your style.
I have a variety of styles. I don't stick to one particular style.
I kind of do high-low style a lot.