Tuesday, May 17, 2005

Writing style

I never liked my own style of writing. Just when I was trying to figure out what were the problems with it, I came across some other blogs. At least a few simple things I need to follow. Top of them is writing complete sentences! Casual sentences with only verbs, or only adjectives seriously hamper the flow of an article. At least that thing will be corrected from this post onwards.

In Marathi, I love the writing style of Govind Talvalkar, Anant Bhalerao and Vyankatesh Madgulkar. Both Talvalkar and Bhalerao were editors of renowned Marathi dailies. Their styles are simple, but still almost impossible to imitate. Madgulkar also had a very simple and effective style. According to PuLa, when you are reading any of Madgulkar's works, you feel as if he is talking to you. And that's where the success of his style lies.

Another stylish author is VaPu Kale. Though I am not a fan of him (in fact, I dislike him) his style is definitely one of the best. Few other names that should be added to list of stylish writers are Shirish Kanekar, Chi. Vi. Joshi and Mangala Godbole.(I can remember only these name right now). Among other editors whom I have read, Arun Tikekar and Madhav Gadkari are quite impressive.

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