Developing Your Writing Style by F. Allan Roth
Today I have with me F. Allan Roth, who will be teaching us about developing your writing style! He and his wife live in Idaho. He is the author of Fighting the Promise ( https://mybook.to/Fighting-the-Promise ), a post-apocalyptic novel set in the mountains of Idaho. He is also the author of a commentary on the Book of Mormon titled A Missionary’s Musings on the Book of Mormon ( https://mybook.to/Mission-Musings ). So without further ado, developing your writing style. Developing a recognizable, unique writing style is one of the hardest problems new or inexperienced writers face. I have a three-step process that helped me polish my writing style and that also helped many of my writing students at Brigham Young University and Ricks College (now BYU-Idaho). What I’m about to tell you will probably contradict everything your composition teachers ever taught you. That’s okay. It works. The three steps are these: 1. Reading to analyze style. 2. Writing to emulate style. (