I want to know your writing style

Read a great blog just now. I’m glad I have many friends around me brandishing that mighty sword. Each of them has his or her own unique style that I admire.

I was recently asked, during one of the “chit-chats” that I attended to you know, fill up my blank canvas with colours, (For the uninitiated, my blank canvas=damn exciting, romanticised future)

“What do you write?”
“What’s your writing style?”

In that split of a second, I thought for a while that those questions were a little too personal. Maybe it is that defensive mechanism arising out of a way to preserve the self esteem of a half-baked writer. Or perhaps it was the guilt that has been lurking forever in the nooks of my subconsciousness that I have probably never taken this (writing) seriously enough. Whatever it was, alarm bells went off in my head.

“I blog. And…” I started only with the slightest bit of sheepishness and then grew in confidence after the word, “blog”. On hindsight, I may have appeared neurotic.

One of them seemed to truly understand. I really contemplated about the second question. Another one chuckled, “oh just give her something, hemmingway or something.”

I couldn’t spin a lie. I tell the truth. When I finally replied with that discerning note of certainty, the woman smiled knowingly (or I perceived it to be a knowing smile).

I know she is a writer too. That shared empathy is hard to miss.

What is your style then? Are you able to articulate?