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• Comment Link Friday, 27 August 2010 16:15 posted by Clare

  I think you raise a lot of interesting points. Thanks for taking the time to respond. I definitely agree that authors sometimes lose their readers when the language is too wordy or even pretentious-sounding. Sometimes, emotions are best conveyed through the simplest language, with sometimes just a word or two revealing more than a whole paragraph might. I think how you first get into writing does impact the way you approach writing, but it doesn't mean you can't get out of a "trained" school of thought. Montgomery was a journalist, as well as a fiction writer, and I'm sure it gave her the skills to edit herself - one of the most important skills a writer needs to have, I think. Montgomery seemed to be writing for herself, and about subjects that were close to her. I think that's why everything seemed to flow so naturally and honestly in her writing.

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• Comment Link Friday, 27 August 2010 11:02 posted by Ray

  I am an amateur writer, but I also am influenced by things in very powerful ways. I write in common language and language that people speak in. I don't believe in writing in language that can be too extravagant, in that I want the reader to enjoy what I write, not have to get a dictionary to figure out what I said (which I have done sometimes when reading certain author's books). That said though when a writer has the natural passions that are affected by vision, or music, or nature I think it is more evident in their writing. In my writing there are times I have been struck by the thought of what I was writing and the language and wording of the passage seems to flow in a very natural way. I look back and it and think "Did I write that? Wow?" In my mind it's my initial reaction, but too often my brain can't really put it into words, yet every so often it manages. With some people such as Montgomery, it's probably more common or easier than it is with myself or other writers. I think it also depends on how they took up writing and how they write. People that tend to use the methods taught in school, outlines, and such I would think would have a harder time coming up with a believable emotional scene in a book. People who tend to write from the heart, or let the characters create the scene, (almost free style), I think the emotion of a scene would flow easier from. Just my thoughts however.

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