“Blade Runner is a rare science fiction movie so full of material that pages can be written about it without scratching the surface. A review like this can provide little more than an overview. A detailed exploration of the movie, its style, and its mysteries requires dedication that only someone immersed in Blade Runner lore can provide.” LittlesFictionWrittenMysteryStyleMaterialsPagesScience FictionSurfaceExplorationReviewsDedicationRunnersBladesBlade RunnerScience Fiction MovieOverviewScratching The Surface Author:James Berardinelli
“Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.” CharacterStarsPleasurePowerfulFictionStyleTalesContemporaryConceptionHorrificPortrayal Author:S. T. Joshi
“Probably the best way to describe my writing style is to refer you to "purple prose", which was a tag given to the early mass market magazine writers earning a half cent a word for their fiction. They had to use every adjective, verb and adverb in the English language to add word count to stories in order to feed and support families.” WayWritingStoriesUseOrderLanguageGivenHalfFictionSupportStyleMassAddBest WayMagazinesProseCentsEarningPurpleEnglish LanguageVerbsTagAdjectivesWriting StyleAdverbs Author:Tom Johnson
“Speech recognition is utterly crap for writing fiction. If you try reading a novel aloud you'll soon figure out why - written prose style is utterly unlike the spoken word.” IfsWritingTryingReadingFictionNovelWrittenStyleFiguresSpeechRecognitionProseCrapWriting FictionSpoken Word Author:Charles Stross
“Though I consider The Chronology of Water to be an anti-memoir for very precise reasons, it is an art form, and thus as open to "critique" as any other art form. Memoir has a form, formal strategies, issues of composition and craft, style, structure, all the elements of fiction or nonfiction or painting or music or what have you.” ArtReasonFormWaterFictionIssuesStylePaintingElementsStrategyStructureMemoirCraftsNonfictionCompositionFormalPreciseCritiqueChronology Author:Lidia Yuknavitch
“The professions of novelist and journalist are very separate. As a novelist, you are ultimately working for yourself. Yes, you need the approval of a publisher and an audience, but what is valued in fiction writing - style, individual voice, insight - is scorned by the editor who is combing through your newspaper article.” NeedsWritingIndividualVoiceFictionAudienceStyleInsightProfessionNewspapersJournalistNovelistsEditorsArticlesApprovalPublishersFiction WritingWriting StyleScorned Author:Jon Weisman