On Style, and thoughts thereof

            Style is rhetorical in the sense that the style of every individual piece of writing is influenced by the needs of the audience. Style is basically the way you as an individual write. When you're reading a novel, the style is generally how the narrator tells you the story. Style has been a huge part of my development as a writer. Through several of the creative writing courses that I've taken I've had to slowly adapt and chance my writing style to fit my assumed audiences needs and expectations. With the novel that I'm working on for instance, I realized that my audience was going to be a younger group of people who are interested in action and a fantasy universe. That knowledge alone educates me in how to modify my writing so that it comes off to the reader as being tension filled and active as opposed to my original style which tended to be very proper and conversational.