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



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. 

I glanced over at rec.arts.sf.composition, due to corona effects from the
"foreign writing" thread. They seemed to be discussing writing style.

But I agree it's perfectly reasonable here, as well. IF puts a new slant
on all the issues.

--Z

"And Aholibamah bare Jeush, and Jaalam, and Korah: these were the
borogoves..."