This Article visits the four basic writing types and the importance of writing style and point of view.
By Laveral Rogers
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As an avid reader and author, I've always been fascinated with various authors writing style. But what exactly do we mean by style? To a certain extent, it's the manner in which we express ourselves, a combination of our personality, our reading choices and the decisions we make while writing. When we read our writing, it may seem perfectly clear to us, but other readers may not be getting our point. We may need to work on our writing style, which is the way we put together a sentence or group of sentences.
Remember, part of the problem with style is that it's subjective. Different readers have different ideas about what constitutes good writing style. The best advice for writers is to say what you mean. Good writing is not to sound intelligent, but to get your intelligent point across to your readers.
Personality type is also revealed through your writing style; however, personality type does not explain all the reasons that cause writers to write the way they do; it has yet to be even more explored. There seems to be four basic writing types; Correspondent, Creative, Technical and Analytical. Correspondent and Creative writers can be classified as 'Feelers' while both Technical and Analytical writers can be classified as 'Thinkers'. I consider myself a Creative writer.
Creative writing is considered to be like any type of writing, fiction or non-fiction, which goes outside the bounds of normal professional, journalistic and technical forms and as a means of classification, is more inclusive than exclusive. All forms of fiction writing as well as many non-fiction forms fall under this broad heading. When a writer makes a career through creative writing, for example, being a novelist, then they can be seen as both a professional writer and a creative writer, or 'Feelers'.
Now Technical and Analytical writers or 'Thinkers' generally are writers that write the manuals that go with products and compiles parts list and other information of a more basic nature. These writers must have a keen attention to detail. But that is not all, this also includes writers that write engineering specifications and documents that detail the path of a particular project.
You may read an article that may sound smart to you and as a writer, you may try to imitate that style or type of writing into your own writing but sometimes when you try to imitate the style, you may miss the most important goal of style, which is to be understood. Remember, your readers are not psychic. If they can't understand what you are sayings, they may miss your whole point entirely. Use words that come naturally to you, words that you use in real life and make sure each sentence is as direct and simple as possible.
Now how about 'Point of View'? Don't take it lightly; as a writer you must choose which point of view will allow you to more effectively develop your characters and tell your story. Some use first person because it's usually easier but third person is actually the more versatile point of view. In the first person, point of view, the narrator participates in the action of the story and can only reveal personal thoughts and feelings regarding what he or she sees and is told by other characters. He or she can't tell us the thoughts of other characters. Now, with the third person point of view, the narrator does not participate in the action of the story as one of the characters, but lets us know exactly how the characters feel. The narrator can report only what he or she sees and hears and can tell us what is happening, but he or she can't tell us the thoughts of the characters.
As an author, I have a writing habit of using more words than I absolutely need to say something. I know when talking in my 'Arkansas Drawl', I use a lot of filler words that don't actually have anything to add to the meaning of what I'm trying to say. But when writing, these filler words and phrases become more obvious and can act as delays in getting the reader to the point of our idea. Our readers might get frustrated and start skimming over our writing which seems a shame after all of our efforts to get our point across to them.
Being born and raised in the South, I have a tendency to use words or phrases that are known in the south but not in other parts of the country. That's not to say, that Southern dialect and backwood sayings doesn't have their own place in my novels.
I personally chose to write my novels using the third person point of view. I feel like I can better let my readers know exactly how my characters feel and they can learn more about my characters through this outside voice. My goal is to get my readers as personally involved with my characters and the plot as possible.
As you can see there are several types of writers, all essential in their own area of expertise. If you are a writer in any one of the basic writing types, my advice is to keep diligent at your chosen field and keep writing!