As you may well have noticed, my writing style tends to be both verbose and complex. To make it easier for readers, I've broken it down into three categories.
The first concerns essay-writing. When forming ideas in this sequence, I try to keep things as simple as possible. I myself have read essays from a wide variety of sources, and found them mostly dull. In order to avoid this problem in my own writing (and it isn't easy, I can assure you), I try to streamline my word choices, making it more accessible to people who have no idea what the hell they've stumbled on.
The second style I reserve mostly for my short stories and occasional longer works of fiction. I play around with sentence structure and double meanings more freely, often adopting thematic direction. That's probably the best way I can describe it,and it may or may not be what the final prose actually sounds like. I've never actually bothered to consult a third party.
And finally, there's my poetry writing. Since poetry generally has many meanings, and very few people understand it with detail, I go all out here. In my poetry writing, I try simply to make the audience feel. Mood remains the key.
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