Tip 2 of 7 Fiction Writing Tips by William Faulkner

Don’t worry about style.

I think the story compels its own style to a great extent, that the writer don’t need to bother too much about style. If he’s bothering about style, then he’s going to write precious emptiness–not necessarily nonsense…it’ll be quite beautiful and quite pleasing to the ear, but there won’t be much content in it.

Source: Open Culture

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