Comments on: 5 Tips for Developing Your Writer’s Voice

By: Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 14:36:08 +0000

I think it’s common (expected?) to lose your natural writer’s voice in an effort to please readers, editors, publishers, agents, etc. Hopefully, we’re able to come back to our voice after we realize that the only reader we need to please is ourselves! If we enjoy our writing, our readers will too…
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By: Ami

Ami — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 18:04:43 +0000

I recently wrote a post about voice myself:

The Voice to Tell Your Story

I’ve been feeling like, in my efforts to appeal to readers and be perfect in my presentation, I’ve lost my natural voice. I’m working to find it again, though, and enjoying the process immensely.
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By: Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen

Laurie Pawlik-Kienlen — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 17:54:06 +0000

The cool thing about finding your writer’s voice and then being confident about it, is that we all like different types of writing and styles! So, even if Joe Blow doesn’t like my writer’s voice, I know that Suzie Q will…and I like my own writer’s voice…

We all have different preferences when it comes to reading and writing, which should free us to let our own writer’s voices come through loud and clear. That’s what I was trying to say! phew
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By: Robert Crane

Robert Crane — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 18:42:47 +0000

Writer’s Voice. Hmm … I think of it no differently from that of a singer or actor or artist. It has an inflection, a personality, a predictability, a style and a tone. Actually, many of the qualities already identified in the other comments. It all adds up to something I can grab onto that I can either love, hate or forget. For me personally it is what will sink my writing or sail it. In either case, I can’t do without it. It’s a live by the pen/die by the pen sort of sword affair.

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By: Laurie PK

Laurie PK — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 01:21:39 +0000

Thanks, K.M. — it’s great to hear from a writer who is confident with her (his?) writing voice! So many of us tend to make it complicated, as you mentioned.

Great to have your voice here
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By: K.M. Weiland

K.M. Weiland — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:52:08 +0000

So often, writers want to make “voice” into some deeply mysterious, when really it isn’t. Voice is just the way we write and the way it sounds as it falls on the reader’s inner ear. I love experimenting with voice, spinning words in new and unusual ways. But it’s always *my* voice, because it is always my writing.
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