As any competent student of literary composition knows, the more natural and casual a voice sounds in print, the more likely it is to have been edited time and again.
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With so many young playwrights, the true craft of writing for living voices is not what it used to be. They write for attention spans of 10 minutes between adverts.
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.
The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
It's very hard to come across as a passionate human being in print. People can't hear the inflections in your voice.
I don't know what makes a writer's voice. It's dozens of things. There are people who write who don't have it. They're tone-deaf, even though they're very fluent. It's an ability, like anything else, being a doctor or a veterinarian, or a musician.
When you are writing literary writing, you are communicating something subtextual with emotions and poetry. The prose has to have a voice; it's not just typing. It takes a while to get that voice.
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.
All writers start out mimicking other writers. I've never relinquished that. I have a good ear for speech and writing patterns.
When you write, you hear the characters speaking to you as you take dictation from what they say. And obviously, they had particular personalities when you hear them.
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