Hey Guys!!! I was thinking about this question and thought I should have discussion on this. Write your views regarding this...

Hi Wilson,

perhaps it might kick off a good discussion if you write your views about this first and then other people can respond

 

I think sometimes Writers write so that they can express their feelings which they could'nt in their real life and sometimes young writers write like mature writers so that they can show their maturity, so according to me its really difficult to say that writing style reflect writer's age. Now you all tell your views.

it depends on the skill of the writer really. A good writer can adapt their voice and tone according to the situation, so they might write as a ten year old child for one piece and as a ninety year old woman for another. That's the beauty of imagination
 

Yes I totally agree with you. This is the best part which I like about writing. You have the power to control your characters and make them do whatever you want in your imagination.

I think there's a difference between the overall style of the narrative, and the style that is used for individual characters' dialogue or points of view. From my own perspective, it's easier to adopt an age-specific style if I'm thinking from the point of view of a character in the target age group. Once I draw back from that perspective, my writing style tends to go back to something closer to my own natural writing voice.

Style is determined by taste, not age. The taste does change as you age, but it's not the number itself that changes you so much as it is your experiences.

One thing that also changes with age is ones cynicism towards people who post blatant plugs for websites on the pretext of contributing to forums.

In my first novel the character at three years old used simple, naive English and uses child-words to describe events. At six years his English uses a broader vocabulary. At sixteen he's a know-it-all swearing with his mates and talking about sex. And so on.

All words used are authentic phrases used at the time and in the place, We didn't use too many 'OK's in the early 60's, it was mostly 'all right'. A gay man was a 'homo' cannabis was 'dope'. Or at least in Manchester ans Oldham at the time.

I've used similar approaches, which is why I don't necessarily agree with the assertion implied by the title of this thread. The writing style needs to reflect the characters and the story being told, not the writer. If you start being able to deduce things about the writer, then they haven't done a good job of keeping themselves out of the way of the story.

Not at all. I've been on this forum, and many others aimed at younger writers, since I was eleven. In all that time, I've read work by older youths that sounds like something a five-year-old would write, and work by ten-year-olds I would have sworn were much older just by reading their work. While I think certain ages do carry more specific stylistic choices, generally (You can often tell based on what colloquial language they let slip by, I find) and what kind of content (for example, if the story is set in high school, the writer probably is in high school) but more often I'm surprised when I make these assumptions than not.

Yes, I agree that writing style reflects the writer's age. Writer writes what he has experienced in life, and reflects his imagination through words.
 

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