Kyle Phoenix Answers: In writing genre fiction, is the use of fragments acceptable, or should they be avoided?

You can't break the rules until you've mastered them. Strunk and White's The Element of Style should be your psalm book for years then you should be able to diagram a sentence. Then try different forms of writing for a while, a year if you're getting your legs---this is generally what a good few dozen classes and half dozen writing books will do. On top of all this you should be reading a minimum of 10 books a month so that you unconsciously absorb form, structure, creativity, style and can technically breakdown a book.

I read 5 books a weekly, this see starts my foray into "ghetto literature"---hardcore, ethnic, amateur books. Lots of fragments so far in Bodyslick by John Sibley. His characterization is maybe a 4 out of 10, heavy on stereotypes racially and from action genres around antihero. The plot is a 5, 50 pages in. But he's a good, reasonably strong technical writer, a 7. He's able to spin a decent sentence, control the fragments for effect.

I can finish this book and I specifically chose it from hundreds because it had a male protagonist , a SciFi intentionality in its plot and a reasonable structure.

He's written at least six books so fragmentation is stylistic now, controlled.

Think of it like learning to make an omelet, its not the first hundred that are perfect. Its that you know a hundred ways to screw up an omelet that make 101 perfect. Same with styles.

Smile, Kyle
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