--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Seraphita" <s3raphita@...> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, obbajeeba wrote: > > > > I like his tip, "If it sounds like writing, re-write it." > > > > Hear that Turq? :) > > It's a good tip for fellow writers of hard-boiled crime fiction. But > there's also a place in the ever-expanding universe of literature for > some purple prose, aestheticism and artifice.
You mean deliberately self-conscious writing? Maybe in experimental literature, but I don't think that works at all for regular fiction.
