Re: [bookclub] Prose style in 'Losing Your Grip'

[mol@bartlet.df.lth.se (Magnus Olsson)]

In article <GjDm4.697$lK6.15364@iad-read.news.verio.net>,
Philip Goetz <pgoetz@i-a-i.com> wrote:
>>   So how is an IF author to decide which details are the most
>>   relevant? That is a question more pertinent to IF than a
>>   question of writing style, which is after all the topic
>>   of other newsgroups.
>> 
>
>Actually, no.  Not that I'm aware of.  If you go to misc.writing,
>for instance, you will find more discussion of agents, copyright,
>and markets than you will of writing style.  Maybe the problem
>is the cross-posting to rec.games.int-fiction, which I don't think
>is appropriate.

I think the question of writing style is very pertinent to
rec.arts.i-f, if simply because writing IF is not quite like writing
static fiction, so we might want to discuss the matter from an
IF-centered perspective.

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