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[27 Jan 2009 | 2 Comments | ]

I can string words together well. I can make good sentences, I have a large enough vocabulary to make said sentences sound reasonably interesting, and I can even use apostrophes in the right place. All of this, however, is not enough to make me a good writer, or at least not a good novelist.
Has my writing got style?

With my novel rewrite, I’ve been trying to focus (among other things) on making the writing sound “beautiful”. I don’t have a good definition for what I mean by this, but I want …