What is writing style? Is it the way you order your words? Is it the way you choose your words? Is it the way your story flows? Is it the figurative language you use? Is it the way your characters are developed? Is it the way you make the reader feel?
The answer is yes to all of those questions.
However, it isn't that easy. The problem with style is you can't pick a style and start writing in it. You can't choose J.K. Rowling's writing style and use it. You have to develop YOUR style. You must write over and over again until readers can feel that style and see it. For a lucky few, their style exists the second they start writing, but most of us aren't part of that lucky few.
Don't fret about style. Just keep writing and let your style emerge.
Style according to...
Peter Meyers: "In the simplest sense, writing style involves the exact literary methods used by an author to inject their own personality into their work; all of their mannerisms, quirks etc through the use of dialect, humor, irony, imagery and so on."
(Original Post on July 17, 2011 at: http://dft.ba/-BSMeyers83 )
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