What style is my writing?

[zoolane]

This quote from Silent Muse:
I always like Zoolane's stories too--they are interesting--but she is very fond of...I don't know what it is technically called, this style...I know it is used a lot in American films from the 1960s-70s, foreign films, and Sundance films. Her stories are always psychological--and sometimes the two thought processes of two characters will melt into each other or two time periods will flow into each other.

Please could someone tell what style is SM describling?

I have spent last two hrs on and off, trying to look the it up.

[hillwalker]

I would have to say it is most likely to be Modernist literature.

William Faulkner's wonderful novel - a personal favourite - 'The Sound and the Fury' is as good a starting point as any to see how closely your writing resembles the opening chapter and the second half of chapter 2.

H

[zoolane]

Thanks Hill, tomorrow go register with library for on line service tomorrow. I suppose as you are about 3 or 4 person to mention William Faulkner to me. There got something here.

[SilentMute]

Perhaps there is a writing style, but I've noticed this more in film than in books. Zoolane is actually the first person I've ever read that does it as a writing style, which is interesting. I thought, zoo, you were a huge movie fan.

The one problem with it, though, is that sometimes it is hard to understand. Frankly, I think it is meant to be. Conversation in literature classes thrive on such plots. "What do you think it means?"

It was after being part of a literary group that I realized I wasn't cut out to be an intellectual. I can enjoy the occasional intellectual activity, but I need a lot of breaks.

I remember the breaking point in my last literature class. We had just read Kazuo Ishiguro's Remains of the Day--and we had watched the movie as well. The teacher asked, "What did the dove at the end of the movie mean?"

After several weeks of this, I had my fill and was in a very bad temper. I said, "It means somebody left the F(*profanity inserted here) window open, and the butler is going to have a big mess to clean up!"

[Delta40]

I think you have a psychological dark style. Saying that, I have no idea what the categories of literature are. One could easily imagine some of your work in film.

[hillwalker]

Hi zoo,

'The Sound and the Fury' is an astonishing book, not easy to get to grips with when you begin to read it.
You'll probably be thinking 'What the #*&%$ is going on here?' after the first couple of pages - but if you stick with it, believe me, you'll not regret it. It's one of the few books I have read five or six times already and I'm still looking forward to reading it again.

As for the style - it's similar to stream of consciousness where you write whatever comes into your mind when you think of one particular thing you want to write about... all sorts of unlikely associations created by your subconscious mind ending up on the page taking you to places you didn't expect to visit along the way.

James Joyce was another pioneer of this style (though his stuff can be very tough going) - and Virginia Woolf if you want something a little easier to handle ('Mrs Dalloway' isn't half bad).

And does the fact you're about to register at the library mean you're not yet a member, zoo?? Well, it's never too late. Good luck discovering what you've been missing.

H

[zoolane]

I am already member but service I was registrar on line so you reserve book and get them sent your local library.

[hillwalker]

Ok - just pulling your leg there...

H