Voice Matters, Part 2
If writing voice is part word choice, part genre-driven, and part worldview, it would seem safe to deduce that oneβs writing voice is as individual as their thumbprint. And yet it has constantly amazed me, in all my years as a developmental editor, that there is often a huge gap between the email voices of my clients andβ¦
https://writerunboxed.com/2025/07/10/voice-matters-part-2/
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#MyWritingProcess by #SusanPlunket
This summer at #Oxford I learned about other things #writers are supposed to be aware of. Things like the #fictivedream, #authorialvoice, #character is #plot, #fabula and #syuzhet, #psychicdistance, #filtering, and #editing in #layers.
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Until this summer what I knew about writing I learned mostly from a lifetime of reading β Jane Austen, Stefan Zweig, Virginia Woolf, others. I love stories. My process was to sit most mornings before work and write, without censoring, until I had a first draft. Then, using intuition, hard thinking, and listening for the [β¦]
This is a piece by @austin_walker on authorial earnestness and buying into your own fiction. He's talking about a video game, but it's touching on the "Whedon-esque' dialogue that everyone is pondering on. Do you mind when an author winks at you through the text?
Post-Cringe: Forspoken and the Self-Sabotage of the Smirking Protagonist
If you're on Twitter or frequent gaming forums, you have probably been unable to escape clips of Forspoken (Square-Enix studio Luminous' new open world action RPG) today. Just in case you spend your time better than me, though, here's a small collection of them: I present to you *actual* dialogue
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