Finding your writer's voice
Subtitle: a guide to creative fiction
By: Thaisa Frank and Dorothy Wall
Contributors: Wall, Dorothy, 1926-
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1994
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780312114657
Subjects: Rhetoric; Creative writing; Technique; Problems, exercises; English language; Fiction
Description: In Finding Your Writer's Voice, novelist Thaisa Frank and poet Dorothy Wall show that voice is not something mysterious: It's simply the way you, the writer, project yourself artistically. Finding Your Writer's Voice helps writers learn to develop a distinctive and vibrant voice.
Table of contents: title: 1. Telling Begins in an Atmosphere of Urgency; title: 2. Voice: Your Most Powerful Tool; title: 3. The Writer as Singer; title: 4. The Importance of Raw Voice; title: 5. The Voice as an Instrument; title: 6. Inner Listening; title: 7. Distilling Voice; title: 8. Inviting Accidents; title: 9. Listening to the Voice of Childhood; title: 10. Public and Private Voices; title: 11. The Sound of Colloquial Voice; title: 12. The Chorus of Voice; title: 13. Who's Speaking?: Voice and Character; title: 14. Capturing the Inner Critic; title: 15. Learning to Spot the Imposter; title: 16. The Writer as Presence; title: 17. Becoming a Prose Thief; title: 18. Using the Journal Dangerously; title: 19. Writing in the Pressure Cooker: Leading Raw Voice into the Story; title: 20. If; title: 21. Craft and the Voice of the Story; title: 22. Going Deeper into the Story: Voice as Composer and Instrumentalist; title: 23. From Anecdotes to Stories; title: 24. Catalysts for the Story: Character-, Plot-, and Vision-Driven Stories; title: 25. Working with Short Forms to Discover Your Story; title: 26. Point of View.