The 7 Writing Styles | Which one are you?

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You may have noticed certain trends in writing style as you read, books that seem to be written in a similar style or voice. While these aren't official writing labels and you don't need fit your work into one of these categories, there are trends we can look at to identify seven broad types of writing styles. Knowing which type you fall under can help you refine your writing style and know what makes it tick!
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0:00 - Intro
1:09 - The period style
2:19 - The contemporary style
4:00 - The lyrical style
6:58 - The conversational style
8:11 - The comic style
9:45 - The voice-driven style
11:33 - The experimental style
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@Kamryn514 13 күн бұрын

I'm Voice-Driven Style. my strength lies in creating distinct and memorable characters. Because my writing is often driven by strong voices and deep character development. I excel at capturing the essence of my characters, making them come alive for my readers, and creating a profound connection between them and my own narratives.

@bicho6313 29 күн бұрын

I've also noticed that one of the biggest differences between contemporary and lyrical style is that contemporary focuses on more concrete elements, whereas the lyrical style uses more abstract ideas and thoughts.

@Ebony.B 25 күн бұрын

I think I’m definitely the lyrical writing style mingled with the period style for my book

@vCoralSandsv Ай бұрын

Great new video. Love the break down of the different styles.

@The_Novu 6 күн бұрын

I write like a combination of William Gibson, Ryu Murakami and Thomas Pynchon. I haven't written in a while because I wasn't sober, now that I am I'm getting back into it, typing this at 7AM after not sleeping all night. Couldn't feel better about it.

@anthonywritesfantasy 29 күн бұрын

I love the addition of examples here! Very useful.

@therockmannorl Ай бұрын

I hope Shaelin's doing okay! You sound under the weather, get some tea and take a nap!

@jeweetzelf1379 Ай бұрын

Exactly what I thought

@LifeLessonsFromBooks Ай бұрын

Thank you for this. As I start my creative writing journey, I worry my writing is not lyrical. I now realise it doesn’t have to be. My preferred styles are contemporary and conversational with a hint of comical.

@audreychin9354 Ай бұрын

im not sure which writing style I have. but for my first novel, the way I write depends on my mc's personality. I'm writing a fantasy world yet my mc is someone who's super sarcastic and depressed and is so done with everything 24/7.

@squashfan9526 Ай бұрын

Would be interested to hear your thoughts on POV in relation to the different styles i.e. which works best with first person POV?

@Missmadamemercury Ай бұрын

I love your videos! I've been watching them for a couple years now. You're so insightful and relaxing. You make it feel like we're having a discussion about a shared passion, and I love that. According to this, I fall somewhere in between lyrical and comical. I didn't have words for it before this, so thank you!

@RichardJBarbalace 28 күн бұрын

From the examples, I cannot tell the differences between styles 1, 2, and 3, which all seem focused on more formal language, and also cannot tell the differences between styles 4, 5, and 6, which all seem conversational and in the narrator's head. Can you explain in more detail the distinctions that separate out each style? Maybe a video on each particular style and its eccentricities?

@robert-ql5cp 8 күн бұрын

Most of my writing style is experimental and i love using ellipsis's when given the opportunity. I think for every writing style is arbitrary to the author and their target 🎯 audience.

@biasa80 Ай бұрын

experimental artist here XD and I love it, it matches perfectly with who I am

@august8679 Ай бұрын

I don't understand why contemporary writing style is considered the "gold standard". I write in this style and I find the style itself quite boring, and focus more on the story itself rather than the prose. I prefer reading the conversational style because it just feels more fun and full of life

@edwinleskin3112 22 күн бұрын

Fantastic video

@jacindaellison3363 23 күн бұрын

My WIP is definitely conversational driven. My protagonist is 12 years old and uses big words, one of the reasons being she reads a lot.

@espanoamigos 29 күн бұрын

I like this video and the way you explain the writing styles. I would like also to be a translator and editor one day, but I see this is not an easy work haha!!

@felixfifeauthor 18 күн бұрын

I definitely mix contemporary and lyrical, which is fun in the sci-fi genre. Another great video 🙏

@ss-gr8lt Ай бұрын

Great video as always, Shaelin - amazing job!

@kikiu1062 10 күн бұрын

I love your videos xxx

@sabatheus Ай бұрын

Contemporary here, for sure.

@anonanon793 Ай бұрын

It seems as though most of these examples are in the first person, or they are very distinctive, such as period. Is this coincidence?

@JakvsMetalheads999 28 күн бұрын

Mine is somewhere between voice-driven and conversational. Most of my writing tends to be very casually voiced first person narration, almost as if the main character is telling someone the story, but I usually stop just short of that actually being the case. I’ll try to avoid invoking the reader as a “character”, I generally won’t have the narrator say things like “you”, break the fourth wall or otherwise address the reader in any direct way, but the narration is still borderline conversational

@jpch8814 29 күн бұрын

Lyrical and voice-driven styles ✔

@absolutelycitron1580 Ай бұрын

Im trying to make mine contemporary but we'll see what the beta readers say once I finish editing. My gut is telling me that mine is a combo of experimental and lyrical. I do love inverted alliteration

@kiwij1424 Ай бұрын

would there be a way of writing in a lyrical or contemporary style whilst maintaining character voice? (I'm writing a multi POV novel)

@jdschooley6808 29 күн бұрын

I have created a novel that uses present day writing style but then the narrative jumps to past events with language, typical of 1850. You may have said it is not done, can I have misunderstood you?

@epiphoney Ай бұрын

I'm surprised Carver has so much description. Maybe there's another more terse style like Elmore Leonard or John Scalzi, where they "leave out stuff readers tend to skip".

@bicho6313 29 күн бұрын

I find that a great representation of this style is Sally Rooney. Her voice tends to be very sparse and simple.

@JimWeaving-ty6tr 29 күн бұрын

I've been told that my style is 'unique'. Not sure if that's a good thing or a bad thing. I know that some people love it, but worry that others would express opinions of a less than complementary nature were they to be asked directly. I have an obsession with rhythm and flow, you see, and a penchant for using both understatement and overstatement. I focus on what 'feels right' and 'sounds right', but also on precision of meaning. The result often being a string of adverbs or adjectives - almost always three. Now that's a faux pas indeed! I find that it makes comedy come easily, but still worry that it will be condemned by modern critics who focus on brevity and simplicity. Obviously, I'm also prone to wordiness. So, my question is: Do you believe that readers and critics would recognize and appreciate what I'm doing, and, as a consequence, allow me to get away with what most would consider to be an amateurish, waffling mess, best suited fore house-training a puppy? In essence, are these habits something I need to send to their grave?

@Raikeran 24 күн бұрын

i think the way you channel your unique writing style would definitely make for a very interesting read on the stories you put out

@JimWeaving-ty6tr 23 күн бұрын

@@Raikeran thanks

@CJBradley 11 күн бұрын

My writing style is journalistic, I like E Hemingway and Jack London but don't make a concious effeort to copy; It's important to be Yourself.!

@julshearts Ай бұрын

Probably comic with a bit of lyrical… but mostly comic

@RosheenQuynh Ай бұрын

I dunno what mine is 🤔

@timmellis5038 Ай бұрын

I like the conversational style. Can you or anyone give suggestions of good writers who write that way? I went on google and asked that question, but it suggested "how to" rather than suggesting any authors. I'm already going to pick up some Jesse Ball books at my library. Does he always write that way? I'm interested because I feel I can write that way, naturally, but I've never heard the term, and to be honest, I get caught up with suggestions on how to write this way and that, and my own style flounders in the background, forgotten. That's why I don't want to read and watch "how to" videos or articles because that's what gets me away from my own voice, which very well may be the conversational style... which I like.

@dukeofdenver Ай бұрын

David Sedaris is a good one. He does the conversational and comic style beautifully. Check out Me Talk Pretty One Day and When You Are Engulfed in Flames

@dukeofdenver Ай бұрын

Also Hank Green - An Absolutely Remarkable Thing, is written in conversational style

@bicho6313 29 күн бұрын

Try Thomas King. Green Grass Running Water is very conversational in parts

@timmellis5038 29 күн бұрын

Thanks for these. I rode my bike to the library and got two by Ball. I looked at Sedaris, ‘Theft by Finding Diaries,’ but it was too big and I forgot to bring a bag to carry them home on my bike. But I read the first few paragraphs of all of them and found I liked them all right away... which is how I like it. I’ve read Hank Green’s book already and loved it. I didn’t see the Thomas King suggestion until I got home, but I’ll definitely be checking him out too. It’s got a high rating on Goodreads (4.3).

@FrostKitty14 Ай бұрын

*Okay, I love the explanation…. I just have no idea how to place my own writing. Can someone help me, please? I have an excerpt.* “If I thought anyone else in my Council fitting that description could defeat both Vivian Roland and your brother in battle, we would not be having this conversation. But as it is now, you are the one I suspect. So, Amara, where is your brother?” I stare at my uncle, long enough to be considered confused. “I wish I knew.” I say, at last. “And I wish I knew who the spy in your Council is, but I don’t.” I can set up another member of the Council, maybe. They’re not as innocent as they pretend to be. Set up some bread crumbs to inform my uncle of and follow. That would be timed poorly, though. My uncle would think it suspicious, and it would be. Suddenly, there’s a trail when suspicion is placed on the spymaster? No, if I were going to set someone up, it ought to have been done already. So, I’m left to convince him of my innocence. *Thank you if you even read this far!*

@absolutelycitron1580 Ай бұрын

In my amateur opinion this sounds like #6. voice-driven style

@FrostKitty14 Ай бұрын

@@absolutelycitron1580 Thank you!!

@dua-e-zehra647 28 күн бұрын

It can be both contemporary and voice driven.

@FrostKitty14 27 күн бұрын

@@dua-e-zehra647 Thank you! I eventually opted to ask an irl buddy. I showed them three different ones. I was told all three were voice-driven, two were contemporary, one was lyrical and one was a little bit lyrical at some points, all three were slightly conversational, and the one that wasn’t contemporary had a touch of period influence.

@jacindaellison3363 23 күн бұрын

@FrostKitty14 hey, I like the story! I love how you used dialogue as a hook. I was told that's not often used.