These cropped up in my English Literature GCSE course and sounded like really interesting techniques to use. If you want to utilise them, how and when do you do it to give the best effect?
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner.
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I try not to think about 'techniques' when I'm writing though. I just write how I like to write.
Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them. There's many a bestseller that could have been prevented by a good teacher. ~Flannery O'Connor
"...we will not ask how much of the fine lady, who could scarcely bear to hear the place mentioned." (Hard Times, Charles Dickens)
"What had brought such a pair together? This was a mystery to the dozens of households living in Unity Mansions..." (The Tall Woman and Her Short Husband, Feng ji-cai)
"the father liked to wink...at business friends while remarking - well, one had to understand, they liked to be alone, none of the old fogies around them" (The Young Couple, Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
An example of free direct speech:
"Here let me see that one - the young woman curved her body farther out of the corridor window. Missus? smiled the old man, looking at the creatures he held in his hand." (The Train from Rhodesia, Nadine Gordimer)
"Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself." William Faulkner.
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I tell the neophyte: Write a million words–the absolute best you can write, then throw it all away and bravely turn your back on what you have written. At that point, you’re ready to begin. — David Eddings
