![]() Your voice is the point where that double vision becomes focused into one three dimensional image. ![]() When you read you think, “Yeah, but if that happened in the real world….” In your daily life you think, “If this happened in a story…” You start to see both fiction and reality stereoscopically. It comes when you are familiar enough with the tropes and beats of fiction that you can integrate them into your own experiences. This sounds more arrogant than I want, but I haven’t been able to improve on the wording. I’m not sure how to describe the process of discovering your own voice except to say that it’s when you start to realize what the old masters got wrong. One’s voice, the nigh-indefinable something that gives humanity to words on paper, has to come from within. I don’t know if they still teach art that way.)īut that’s just for learning technique. I would advise anyone who wants to write to start by imitating the masters, just as art students do. That’s a natural step in the process of learning the craft. When I first started writing I tried to emulate the writers I admired. ![]() ![]() How do you think your own life and experiences have influenced your writing? ![]()
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