I've just heard an opinion that stories written by a highly skilled author differ in voice: professional author is unseen on the pages and only the characters are heard. Such authors sound different from book to book. As a reader, I wouldn't want to follow their work. I read Vonnegut because I want to hear his ideas. I read Hemingway because I trust his prose won't be fluffy. This is why you love some authors and not others, right?

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Typed my new draft into IWL and ran it through the analyzer. Well, this one is new... Not the part about Ursula K. Le Guin, no -- I almost always get Le Guin. But Daniel Defoe is truly unexpected. The power of longhand drafting 😅

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After yesterday's chaotic search through digital folders, only to find the draft I was looking for handwritten in a notebook, I've returned to longhand drafting. This way, my brain creates using its parts that otherwise hide from the screen glare. It's like another version of me takes over. The story also comes more easily. I've written two drafts of a new story in a couple of hours. A special heatwave bonus: no laptop roasts me while I think.

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