When I was a kid I used to read a lot of Stephen King books on top of the no-brainer Sweet Valley Twins and Friends. I started writing early on in grade school and found myself copying the way Stephen King and Francine Pascal writes. If you want me to explain how I merge the writing style of a suspense novelist and a teenage drama writer, I can't do that.But I do remember alternating their writing styles. If you read King a little too much, you're going to start writing like King.
Which can both be a good thing and a bad thing. While it may sound wrong to copy someone else's writing style, we should all remember that that's how most writers start. You start by copying someone else's style and then you realize that certain things work and certain things don't. Adjustment and change comes until eventually you develop your own style.
Now what do I mean by saying all these things? What's my point? This blog was created not to tell you guys what writing style works best or how you can achieve a certain writing style. If you want something like that you can go ahead and read Strunk & White and that's assuming that you haven't already. What we're going to do here is try to find our own style. To rock to our own music. By examining different writing styles we get to have an understanding of how we sound. Our true writing style.
Remember that at the beginning, copying is unavoidable. It is actually even unconsciously done. But true art comes when you break away from that. So just keep on writing. Write and write... don't even think of stopping. Keep writing until you shed off your shell and come out as yourself.
