°° Every Writers Writing Style Is Different As Long Aa Reader Understands What's Going On °°

What's up my friend, Hana here and welcome back to writers life where we come together to help you make your story matter and make your author dreams come true.

Today we're talking about how you should stop trying to be a good writer as in stop writing pretty prose in attempts to impress somebody who doesn't care. You're ruining your story. You're ruining your life. I'm serious. Tell me if this sounds familiar, you've always enjoyed writing, but now you're doing it way more than you used to.

So now you're thinking, hey, maybe I could make a career out of this. So you start studying it and researching it and learning from the masters and you hear the advice that you should read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read, read in order to become a better writer.

No problem. You love writing anyway. So you buy all the books, you read all the books, and then you quickly realize, maybe I'm not so good at this writing thing. Not compared to Jane Austen. Not compared to F Scott Fitzgerald. Not compared to Ernest Hemingway, how do they craft such beautiful prose? It takes you like 20 minutes to put together a halfway decent sentence. And then you stare at it for another 20 minutes, until you hate it, and delete it.

If you struggle to write good prose. This article is for you. Why does your story matter? Good question. What if I told you that there's a science behind every great story, I don't just teach you how to write. I teach you how to change the world with your story and make your author dreams come true.

George Orwell once said, Good prose should be transparent, like a window pane. And I couldn't agree more. The opposite of this is something that's known as stained glass window prose, aka prose that is trying to be so ostentatious and beautiful that it ends up distracting from what it's actually trying to show you is pretty prose.

Awesome. Yes, sometimes it can be. But you should never sacrifice your story on the altar of making your writing sound good. That's like baking a really beautiful cake that tastes like crap. Like, yeah, you want your cake to be beautiful, obviously. But the most important thing is that it tastes good.

So the first thing you should ask yourself right now is, why do I want to write beautiful prose? Be honest with yourself? Why exactly? is this so important to you? Are you trying to impress someone, or prove to yourself that you can be just as good of a writer as so and so? If so, you're doing it for the wrong reasons? Yes, you should want to impress your readers. But the most impressive thing you can do is make your readers feel something.

So when you're sitting there and you're writing and you're trying to craft beautiful sentences that are lyrical and poetic, and impressive, don't ask yourself, How do I make this sound good. Instead, ask yourself what exactly is happening here? And how does my point of view character interpret it? through their eyes? That to me is so much more important than actual writing style? writing style should change? Okay, it shouldn't just be.

I'm so and so. And I write beautiful, lyrical, poetic, ostentatious prose. You're stepping into this story, you're stepping into the shoes of a character. You are being immersed in their story in their world, and you're hearing their voice. This is what I've always felt about writing style.

I've had writers ask me all the time, how do I find my writing style? What? Where does writing style come from? When will I develop my writing style. And I never think of writing style like that.

I feel like my writing style changes from story to story with every project I write, because I'm writing new characters. I'm writing a new world every time and how my character sees the world and sees their experiences is based off of their own desires, fears and misbeliefs. That's the lens they see reality through. And their voice is the voice. I want my reader to hear. I don't want my reader to hear my voice. I want them to hear the character's voice.

I want them to feel like they are immersed in the character's perspective. And if that character is not a flowery poetic person, that it just won't make sense to have my prose be technically pretty when that character is narrating it would be so much better for my reader to feel what my character is feeling and understand why my character sees the world the way they do.

The most important thing is that your reader always understands what is going on. Because a confused mind always says, No. Now that doesn't mean beautiful writing will be confusing. If beautiful writing shouldn't be confusing. Even if it's more poetic and lyrical, it should still be clear.

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Okay, it should still be that window pane showing you what is beyond the window. We don't want to just get distracted looking at the window itself. words in a story in a book in a novel in whatever you're writing, the words are designed not to be pretty in and of themselves. But to show you something deeper to show you what is beyond the words every sentence should be a window into something else.

Now that window can be beautiful. Yes. However, Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Some people will love a particular writing style, other people will hate it. All of those authors I mentioned at the in the intro that I was crying about not being able to write like them.

Some people hate their writing style of one stars. You can't when not, not by those means. I mean, like, there is no perfect story.

Okay, there is no book that every person loves, just doesn't exist. So you better accept that fact of life now, or else you will be super disappointed when you go and put your work out in the world. So my point is this, there is no standard that you should be aspiring to.

Okay, every writers writing style is different as long as your reader understands what's going on, and they feel what your characters feeling. In my opinion, there is no greater achievement as a writer like that's personally, all I'm trying to achieve when I write is how can I make this emotional? How can I describe exactly what is going on in a way that makes my reader feel something not that they'll be impressed by the way I was able to word that sentence or construct this beautiful description. I don't care about that.

In fact, I find simple writing the most impressive if you can show me something really precise. With just a few words. If you can make me feel something really deep, with just a few words, that is so much more powerful than the most beautifully well thought out. well crafted paragraph. So bottom line, don't worry about trying to match or outdo someone else's writing style or someone else's prose. Just worry about finding your own style your own voice.

Worry about making your reader feel something make your story matter to you. Then set out to make your reader feel your characters emotions. And if you can do that, congratulations. You're a good writer.

Okay, boom. That's it. Time for you to talk to me. Comment below this and tell me what do you think about this topic? I want to hear all your thoughts, beautiful prose and and flowery, ostentatious sentences, or raw simple writing that makes you feel something.

What do you prefer? I want to know comment below, smash that like button if you liked this article. Thank you!