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Originally Posted by Ansileran
I'm not sure what "writing style" encompasses here ^^
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That is my problem. I have read a lot of books, and have no idea of what style is really, never mind what it encompasses.
What started me wondering was the Red Flag thread where someone mentioned 2nd person present tense and I had to look it up. Then the JK Rowling controversy mentioned her style etc. as being somewhat distinct or flowery. I read the preview which I rarely do and decided to read the book, and found myself almost analyzing a paragraph here and there. I know many people do this, but not me
. I read a book and at some point I know whether I like the book based on story, characters, interesting points that crop up (a lot of the points mentioned in your post). But the type of narrative, flowery or straightforward descriptions, tense etc. I have not dwelled upon.
So stopping to think here and there throughout the book about descriptions, I found them to be totally nonintrusive, and added to the plot or characters rather than blah, blah, blah. There are a lot of descriptive sentences or parts of sentences, but not abnormally so, but having never thought about this before I really wouldn't know.
I haven't finished the book, but so far I like it except for the main character's hair being mentioned in an unpleasant way far too often, it is a slightly better than okay book which is good enough for me to read another by this author. And I don't really have to know more about style, but would like to.
Helen