
Finding your voice : how to put personality in your writing
Title:
Finding your voice : how to put personality in your writing
Author:
Edgerton, Leslie.
ISBN:
9781582971735
9781582971742
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Cincinnati, Ohio : Writer's Digest, ©2003.
Physical Description:
241 pages ; 23 cm
General Note:
Includes index.
Contents:
Why Writers Lose Their Original Voices -- Why Unpublished Writers Have an Inferiority Complex -- You Want Me to Change My Entire Writing Style?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.
Abstract:
Presents guidance and exercises for developing one's own unique writing voice--or getting it back after imitating another writer--explaining what readers really want and providing advice from accomplished writers, editors, and agents.