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Clayton Hamilton on style: nine checks for your own fiction, from a 1908 chapter
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For fiction writers who want a structured way to review the sound, rhythm and word choice of their own prose. It restates one chapter of Materials and Methods of Fiction as nine questions, each with line locators. It is a curator's reading of a century-old text, untested, and does not claim the chapter is correct.
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Clayton Hamilton on style: nine checks for your own fiction, from a 1908 chapter
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For fiction writers who want a structured way to review the sound, rhythm and word choice of their own prose. It restates one chapter of Materials and Methods of Fiction as nine questions, each with line locators. It is a curator's reading of a century-old text, untested, and does not claim the chapter is correct.
Useful starting points
- The chapter treats style as present or absent, and more or less, never as good or bad.
- In its account, exposition needs style least and narrative and description most, so weigh the checks to fit the kind of passage.
- It says the rhythm of a sentence should follow the movement of its thought, and that a recurring pattern of letters should avoid being blatant.
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