Today’s question is, how do you write? Do you love long, artistic, experimental and flowing sentences, full of dependent clauses and prepositional phrases? Do you love to walk around an idea and show it from various angles and viewpoints before you move on to the next thing?

Or do you prefer things short, simple, precise, and direct?

I know this is kind of a generalization–and I realize the distinction is more of a spectrum than a clear-cut either/or–but I’ve always found it a useful tool, when analyzing literature and especially my own writing, to classify writers into one of two categories.

In general, a writer is either a Faulkner or a Hemingway.

• Faulkners are known for their wonderful word play. Faulkner himself is known for some sentences that are over a page long. The way he wrote is truly art, in and of itself.
• Hemingway, of course, is known…