Cee R.
1 min readJun 28, 2021

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For what it's worth, your blogposts have been getting progressively chattier ;)

There will always be differences in tone & voice - even between blogposts. When I'm tired, for example, I have a habit of sounding like a babbling Victorian dictionary (I can't stop and I do it IRL while speaking - it's an actual problem sometimes!) And when I'm writing fanfiction posts, for example, I'm going to be using a whole different set of slang than I would use in a post about blogging or history or whatever (although, I try to explain said slang to make it more accessible!)

A lot of the time I will literally write what I think, as if I was chatting to The Bestie, or a blogging friend, then edit afterwards. I've found that regardless of what writing you're doing - fiction or blogging or whatever - you need to stop yourself rephrasing things just because it doesn't sound like what you're used to reading. It's hard to explain wtf I mean, but there's a certain syntax (ye order of ye wordies in ye sentence,) that we expect in order to make prose be 'proper.' F**king with the syntax, or using words which are less traditional and possibly sound less smartical, can bring an originality to your stuff, y'know? Or else I'm talking sh**. V. possible, tbh!

...This is an essay, again. I do this a lot - oops! ;)

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Cee R.
Cee R.

Written by Cee R.

Writer, poet, (book) blogger @ dorareads.co.uk , Queer, weird, & a tad peculiar. Bookish rebel. Welsh as a tractor on the M4. Buy me a coffee @ ko-fi.com/ceearr

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