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

[emayer00@epix.net (Eric Mayer)]

An addendum here. In talking about critiquing I am looking at it from
the point of view of trying to write for mass market publication. I
have managed that to a very very modest extent. (Especially modest
since I've been co-authoring with my wife) Simply put, academic-style
criticism is just not very useful in that setting. I finally got
published when I set aside a lot of what I'd learned as an English Lit
major. Now, if you are aiming for an academic audience, a university
press, literary magazines, then academic style criticism may be very
helpful. I've never aspired to be a literary-type writer so I really
can't say.

What I basically learned on the road to getting published is that in
some ways it is more difficult than I ever imagined but as to what
works for prose-style it is a lot easier than I would've guessed. All
of the better writers I've read games by in this group would not only
be perfectly capable of professional prose but would be above average
prose stlylists.
--
Eric Mayer 
Web Site: <http://home.epix.net/~maywrite>

"The map is not the territory." -- Alfred Korzybski