New Writing Styles

For modern writers it is a Brave New World out there. Every new writer is writing in a format that is new, original and bold. It is no longer like in the past when a successful author experiments with a new style occasionally. Today writers have, in the manner of the World Wide Web, separated content from its presentation. New styles of presentation have appeared in the novels that indicate a boldness, a tendency toward novel (Ugh! Pun not intended) presentations which make the reading fresh, interesting and prodding to try newer ways of telling a story. It is a clear departure from the classical style that comprises a running narrative relieved by dialogue. Today one often comes across styles that break away from the old world model and present the content in radically different ways.

There is also a move away from the omniscient narrator who lords it over his or her fictional characters. This breed of writing seems to decline in favour of first person narration which seems to give to the narrative more solid believable characters and at the same time give the story a temporal quality. But it is not just the shift in the point of view (POV) that we are witnessing today. It is a wholly new perspective that allows the characters to reveal the story and the author is merely bringing the pieces together without making it obvious or becoming visible in any manner.

Two examples:
1. No God In Sight by Altaf Tyrewala
2. Salmon Fishing in the Yemen by Paul Torday

The innovative courageous writers are debutants, who have presented - not experimented with - new styles of writing the novel.

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