The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
Character and story are suggested by the voice in the words themselves.
The amazing thing now is that most of those so-called critics who were telling me to find my own voice seem to have lost theirs.
A voice is such a deep, personal reflection of character.
I enjoyed writing for someone else's voice, but I wasn't very good at it.
'The Voice' gave me a chance to show people the side of me that is an artist. People didn't know what that would look like or sound like. It allowed people to see that potential.
I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project.
I feel it's very important to let individual writers' voices come through. But the character has to be consistent.
Some novelists want to give people in history a voice because they have been denied it in the past.
It's a dead give away of an inexperienced writer if every character speaks with the same voice.