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So how do you write prose? Any good books you know on the subject? (lemmygrad.ml)

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I got made fun of as a child by a parent for doing art and just... never did any ever afterwards. I primarily hang around artists tho and would like to relate to them more, but none of them do creative writing. I've read numerous grammar books, so that won't be a problem, but none really go in to how to construct a sentence, paragraph, page, chapter, plot, etc. I'll happily take any advice on the subject, really anything you can think for someone with actually zero experience.

Good advice I've gotten so far is to just write basically whatever. Also, people who are visual artists and creative writers, which was "easier" for you to become fluent?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Any specific hemmingway novel? I've only read Old Man and the fish

[–] [email protected] 0 points 6 months ago

My personal favourite is A Farewell To Arms. But I think you can see emough of his writing from Old Man and the Sea. The way his sentence lengths are very deliberately varied, his carefulness about how much or how little description detail to give. Stuff like that. Grab any two sections of the same work that have different feels - mood, pace, etc - and you can see how his writing style differs between them to help convey that difference.