I admire clear succinct prose, like Hemingway’s. And I also like beautiful style of Oscar Wilde, where every word matters even though the language is poetic and can be quite elaborate at times. Both writers couldn’t be more different but one thing they have in common is clarity.… Read the rest
Literary versus commercial fiction: are you on the borderline?
Ulysses or Sherlock? Vast amount of writing blogs give advice to newbies on how to write commercial fiction. This type of text, I call it text not literature, has a primary goal to SELL. To achieve that, it needs to entertain.… Read the rest