The Brat and the Book (Gary Lutz)

First of all, I'd like to point out that I absolutely love how much creativity the author put into his choice of words. As he is talking about style he uses a lot of style himself and plays with structure and vocabulary to make his experiences with writing come alive.

In my childhood I was exposed to a lot of story-writing since my grandmother, who used to be a journalist, had dedicated herself to writing children's books and once in a while she would write short stories for fun. She used to teach me songs and words and since my parents decided to raise me speaking spanish first, she gave me my share of english every once in a while. I used to brag to my dad by sitting down with any storybook and reading out loud to him.

I have come to realize through my few years of writing that style is a very important, if not the most important, part of writing. There are no printed rules about style and authors can play with it however they please. Style gives identity to the story and leaves a little bit of the author behind in every piece. "the words have to lean on each other, rub elbows, rub off on each other, feel each other up" (Lutz) When you write you want people to remember what you said because maybe you were lucky enough to cause an impact by putting ideas under a new light. I personally try to really carefully choose my words and the order they should go in, I love to play with adjectives because that is how you really get to show unusual ways of showing things.
"The content words comprise the nouns, adjectives, adverbs, and most verbs: they are carriers of information and suppliers of sensory evidence." (Lutz)

I think Lutz managed to give a great description of how writing feels like. I don't agree with him when he says that "The sentence, with its narrow typographical confines, is a lonely place" since to me it is more like a wide open space with endless possibilities.

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