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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

The style of no style (part 1)

Everything has a style. This dictionary that I just grabbed defines style as “[a] method or manner of preforming a task.” Every job can be accomplished in many different ways. Each person creates their own unique style. This is how things how always have been. Then one day someone realized they could teach others to use their same style.
Then teachers of everything popped up. There are thousands of people with books, documentaries, and seminars on writing, getting rich, and life in general. All teaching their set style. Now set style is not always bad. You can only skin a cat so many ways, but some things are not as simple as skinning metaphorical cats (anyone want to explain what skinning a cat is). Writing is one such craft. Imagine if everyone wrote in the same voice, same sentence structure, same genre.
There would be no point in picking up another book. You would have already seen it all. The art would stop evolving. Everyone would just keep passing along same set of tips and trick making everything uniform.
The other choice is completely disregard any advice given to you by anyone. This would prevent you from absorbing anyone's style and it would allow you to keep your uniqueness. That option can go wrong if you suck at writing and let's all be honest most of us suck at writing. I suck writing. It would seem there is no getting around it. You will either fashion your style of writing after another or you will be stuck with the way you write now (which may suck). There appears to be no solution to this problem. That I will tell you later.
Hint: it involves Bruce Lee

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