Help me out, /lit/. I could stand to bounce this off of someone.
When I was young, I read a lot and wrote a lot. There wasn't a moment of my time that wasn't spent between the covers of a book. In high school my teachers would go on and on about my writing, and how I was the best in my graduating class. I was proud of my writing, but as life got busy it became harder to find the time.
My problem is that it's been four years since I've read a book, and my writing is rusty as a result. Not only that, but years of studying screenplay has left a mark upon my own style: My writing has changed from a flowing, poetic read to something much more Spartan in approach. Extraneous details are stripped out, with the focus on less being more. And the verbal flow of the reading takes priority above all else.
The thing is… I somewhat enjoy this new style. Sure, it's strange having to remind myself to get inside my character's heads. It's also a bit difficult to re-inject the other senses that a visually-oriented medium like screenwriting requires to be omitted, and relearning varied transitions and starts to sentences has got me feeling a bit stupid, but I'm finding there's real value in the teachings of my screenwriting professor. The style works great for short stories, when concepts like conservation of page space and more subtle language to express ideas between the lines all take priority.
So my problem is this: Does a style like this sound viable to you? And do you know of any writers to recommend who value that approach of "less is more"?