Post #204125

#WritersCoffeeClub 1. How satisfied are you with your current writerly 'voice'? i made a point of developing a strong voice in the current WIP. i took inspiration from the works of Charlotte Bronte, Mark Twain, and Virginia Woolf, who all had strong voices, and i wanted the story to reflect that lineage. the techniques behind a narrative voice are hard to pin down. mostly, i have a persona in mind when i write the narration, and i bring out the narrator's idiosyncrasies by instinct rather than analytically. when the time is right to inject the narrator's opinion, i do. i tried to pick an excerpt that was suitably illustrative and brief; see below. 'Had they guessed the reason behind this [cheerfulness], however, they might have been rather more circumspect in their approval. For Eleanor was not only thriving due to her newfound sense of purpose and a much-needed supplement of extra calories, but brimming with that most severely controlled substance on planet Earth, which is the sexuality of a young girl.'