ABSTRACT
We generally find possible to use longer sentences in writing than in speaking, for the reader who fails to grasp a sentence at the first reading can turn back; it is safe to use very long and rare words in a piece of prose intended for private reading. The descriptive and narrative passages will be written in the novelists own style, which is usually correct and often highly decorative and individual; Letters, being normally prose addressed to one person, come midway between written and spoken prose. Another form of writing midway between written and spoken prose is the Diary. The danger of a very colloquial style or, sometimes, of the stream-of-consciousness, is that it may easily lapse into sentimentality or hysteria because it is not controlled, giving a rather cheap and unreal pathos to trivial ideas. Sometimes, it is used to give a false toughness.
