Finding Your Writer's Voice

An illuminating guide to finding one's most powerful writing tool, Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to hear the voices that are uniquely their own. Mixing creative inspiration with practical advice about craft, the book includes chapters on:

Accessing raw voice

Listening to voices of childhood, public and private voices, and colloquial voices

Working in first and third person: discovering a narrative persona

Using voice to create characters

Shaping one's voice into the form of a story

Reigniting the energy of voice during revision