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kleinbl00  ·  4105 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Writers on Hubski: Opinion Please re Period vs. Comma

    The purpose of style guidelines is to achieve consistency in prose style and usage so that readers can become absorbed in the content rather than be distracted by curiosities in form.

Totally. Which is why they dominate nonfiction. Within fiction, however, the style and usage are half the fun.

Ran into this all the time in screenwriting because there are precise, colorful, appropriate words to use, but the knuckle headed screenwriting "industry" has gotten the idea that if you use language more colorful than the bare minimum, you're "polluting" the story.

Nevermind that every spec screenplay ever sold has all sorts of "color."