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Why is it generally important to be consistent with the tone and style of writing?
While there's nothing to say you can't do this, it's unusual for a reason.
When a reader selects and starts reading a book, they become invested in it (hopefully!). They say that the first 20k or so ...
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Why is it generally important to be consistent with the tone and style of writing?
Expanding on Phil's answer:
He's right that you run the risk of alienating readers. But maybe that's ok. Much like genre, tone sets the expectation for your reader and is something of a contract; ...
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Why is it generally important to be consistent with the tone and style of writing?
I think this comes down to something similar to what Brandon Sanderson describes as promises and payoff (YouTube link), except where he is discussing plot, you are talking about tone and style. But I ...
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I'm afraid of being accused that I copied, even when I'm the one writing earlier
a story is a gift
You cannot share a story and keep it to yourself.
You have the good fortune of a small group of friends who support your interest in writing. You will, at times, need to compromise ...
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How to externalise internal thoughts better?
Part of that you need to leave to the director. Remember, that's the division of labor: you're telling the story with words, and he's telling it with pictures.
And the actors are a big part there as ...
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Why is it generally important to be consistent with the tone and style of writing?
Tone and style should be chosen for effect.
It is possible to change tone. This should correspond to something happening in the story such that it makes sense. A new character entering, or leaving, is ...
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Why is it generally important to be consistent with the tone and style of writing?
Flowers for Algernon is a serious yet gentle story where the author indeed changes style through the story. It was a hit, won awards and the clever, tactful use of this change in fact adds to the ...
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Why is it generally important to be consistent with the tone and style of writing?
In the essay Fenimore Cooper's Literary Offences, Mark Twain lists eighteen of the "rules governing literary art in the domain of romantic fiction" that he believed to have been violated by ...
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I'm afraid of being accused that I copied, even when I'm the one writing earlier
I would never share a story while I am writing it with another writer writing a similar story, and wouldn't want another writer to share their story with me, just because of the effects you describe.
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