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You don’t know your fiction writing style?  You don’t think you have a writing style?

Every writer has a writing style.  It’s just that some writers are conscious of their style and others are not.

This is my style:

• No metaphors
• No adjectives
• No adverbs
• As little exposition as possible
• Show don’t tell
• No unnecessary words
• Use concrete sense details

Now I know this style sheet is very narrow and most writers would want nothing to do with it; but it works for me and some very nice things happen in my fiction when I can approach this ideal.  And I can only approach this ideal if I’m “conscious” of it.  Writing is a bridge from the writer to the reader.  You want to be a conscious bridge builder.  Who wants to travel on a bridge built by an unconscious writer?  The reader might not get to the other side.

So, what’s your writing style?

PS  In my non-fiction I love metaphors.