How to Write Usefully

Re:How to Write Usefully by TimPC on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:28AM (#22384346)

I experienced this too. I'm trying my best to unlearn it because I'm writing a novel. I'm not so adept with flowery prose as to write literary fiction, so I want to have more practical sentences that have better pacing.

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Re:How to Write Usefully by erikbye on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:46AM (#22384499)

Purple prose is not a requirement for literary fiction.

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Re:How to Write Usefully by throwanem on Friday February 21, 2020 @11:48AM (#22384521)

Given the entirely performative nature of the genre, purple prose well executed almost certainly cannot hurt.

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