Why Writers Lose Their Original Voices -- Why Unpublished Writers Have an Inferiority Complex -- You Want Me to Change My Entire Writing Style? -- It's Okay to Be Yourself. I Mean -- It's Really Okay -- Here's Lookin' at You Kid...A New and Different Way of Looking at Your Audience -- The Elements of Personality of "Voice" -- Strategies for Getting and Keeping Your Voice on the Page -- The Link Between Material and Voice...And Why You Should Break It...Undue Influence-Tuning Out the Masters -- How to Seize Control of Your Novel, Short Story, Nonfiction Article or Book and Make It Your Own -- What Top Writers, Editors and Agents Say About Voice -- A Disclaimer -- Index.