Introduction: What is voice and style?
Now that we’ve completed the series on my editing pet peeves, which proved to be the most popular articles I’ve ever published on Substack (thank you, dear readers!), I wanted to look at fiction writing from a different perspective.
On A Writer’s Block, I tend toward discussing specific techniques to improve your writing: craft more than art. I’m a firm believer that better writing – better prose, words, and sentences – will help improve your story and draw readers into your plot and your characters.
If you want advice on how to improve your plots, come up with better ideas, or to be inspired and motivated to write, there are unlimited resources out there.
But there’s one topic that seems to get either ignored or glossed over quickly everywhere I look. So, like the glutton for punishment I am, I’ve decided to tackle this one:
How do you develop your individual style and voice as a writer?
Writing fiction is both art and craft, and those two pieces go h…
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