What do we mean by ‘narrative voice’? This is possibly the most difficult question to answer in all of writing craft, partly because there are as many answers as there are writers. Yet voice is something that agents and editors like to claim is at the heart of all good writing.
Even more importantly, everyone, including your readers, will know if the narrative voice is ineffective, inconsistent or just plain missing, even if they can’t explain why.
Spend an hour with us and we’ll:
•break down for you the many things that voice can be
•show you the elements of your writing which come together to form voice
•discuss the tools available to you to create the right voice for the book you are writing
•explain the difference between the voice of the novel and the overall voice of a writer.
The Writers’ Foundation Guides aim to give you professional skills for a minimal investment of time and money. They are the perfect self-help guides to writing, editing and publishing for anyone who aspires to be a writer or works with the written word. Produced by experienced author and editor Janet Allison and award-winning journalist and editor Louise Cole, these are real-world guides to getting the job done — and doing it right.
Even more importantly, everyone, including your readers, will know if the narrative voice is ineffective, inconsistent or just plain missing, even if they can’t explain why.
Spend an hour with us and we’ll:
•break down for you the many things that voice can be
•show you the elements of your writing which come together to form voice
•discuss the tools available to you to create the right voice for the book you are writing
•explain the difference between the voice of the novel and the overall voice of a writer.
The Writers’ Foundation Guides aim to give you professional skills for a minimal investment of time and money. They are the perfect self-help guides to writing, editing and publishing for anyone who aspires to be a writer or works with the written word. Produced by experienced author and editor Janet Allison and award-winning journalist and editor Louise Cole, these are real-world guides to getting the job done — and doing it right.
