This experiment is the second in the Author Voice, Character Voice arc. I mentioned in Part 1 there would be three posts. Now it’s looking more like four.
My goal in this arc is to demonstrate that character voice – the way a character talks, the words they use, how they emphasize things, grammatical and linguistic quirks, … – reveal character, including any changes they’ve gone through as the story/novel progresses.
Author voice is similar to the above and covers the entire work, not individual characters. It is your brand, if you will, and how readers recognize your work as separate and distinct from others.
Part 1 focused on Character Voice. This post focuses on author as character, something often used when the character has no language and only experience. The author has to write through the character’s POV but can’t use the character’s own words as they (for some reason) can’t lingualize their experience.
Let me know how good a job I’m doing. Feel free to ask me to elaborate. Currently I recognize this is one of those things I know and never had to explain to myself.
Think I’m onto something? Take a class with me or schedule a critique of your work.
Think I’m an idiot? Let me know in a comment.
Either way, we’ll both learn something.
Get copies of my books because it’s a nice thing to do, you care, you can follow along, and I need the money.
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