Comments on: Voice Friday: Words for Your Voice http://www.darcypattison.com/voice/voice-friday-words-for-your-voice/ Sat, 11 Feb 2012 15:30:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Roxanne Werner http://www.darcypattison.com/voice/voice-friday-words-for-your-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-2964 Roxanne Werner Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:34:54 +0000 http://darcypattison.com/voice/voice-friday-words-for-your-voice/#comment-2964 I was just reading this and realized it was close to an exercise I made up for myself recently. Funny how writers searching for voice and words end up at the same place. I called mine ripple charts, but they are the same association diagrams. http://roxannewerner.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9D0C31AB667441!167.entry Guess there are no new ideas, just new people finding the same ones. At least I know I'm on the right track, if someone has blazed it before me. I was just reading this and realized it was close to an exercise I made up for myself recently. Funny how writers searching for voice and words end up at the same place. I called mine ripple charts, but they are the same association diagrams.

http://roxannewerner.spaces.live.com/blog/cns!9D0C31AB667441!167.entry

Guess there are no new ideas, just new people finding the same ones. At least I know I’m on the right track, if someone has blazed it before me.

]]> By: Liz http://www.darcypattison.com/voice/voice-friday-words-for-your-voice/comment-page-1/#comment-14 Liz Sun, 29 Jul 2007 22:33:30 +0000 http://darcypattison.com/voice/voice-friday-words-for-your-voice/#comment-14 Interesting technique. I'll try it with a few words in my novel - that I feel I need to change. Do you think an author's 'voice' is easier to establish when the novel is written in 3rd POV omniscient than in 1st POV? Just asking because in the writing of my current WIP I felt that I had to find and stick with the MC's voice, and now in the polishing - revising stage I find that my 'voice' comes in from time to time- I think. [Mostly in some of the narration- where I' trying to balance the 'tone of voice' Interesting technique. I’ll try it with a few words in my novel – that I feel I need to change.

Do you think an author’s ‘voice’ is easier to establish when the novel is written in 3rd POV omniscient than in 1st POV?

Just asking because in the writing of my current WIP I felt that I had to find and stick with the MC’s voice, and now in the polishing – revising stage I find that my ‘voice’ comes in from time to time- I think. [Mostly in some of the narration- where I’ trying to balance the ‘tone of voice’

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