The Writer's Style Handbook

Professor Paul Butler literally wrote the book on style for writers, and here he shares his deep expertise to help you construct your own distinctive style. The talk focuses on the benefits of the "loose" style or cumulative sentence for novelists, but Paul points out half a dozen other techniques that you can use without any fancy grammatical knowledge. This interview culminates in a stylistic analysis of the recent sci fi analysis of Tasmyn Muir's Gideon the Ninth, pointing out the amazing construction of Muir's sentences.