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Is Your Writing Voice Masked?

Yeah, so, that headline is a clever attempt to tie this post into Halloween. In case my efforts are obtuse, mask=costume=Halloween. I know, I know, a bit labored. Except that writing voice is an important subject. (Along the same Halloween theme, last week I wrote about Fear and Focus.) And writing voice is a topic […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 12 years ago11/03/2015

Voice

Greatest Hits: Finding Your Personal Style As A Writer

While I'm in Frenchglen where there is no internet connection, I'm running an old blog post. This one was originally posted back in 2007, and I thought it was apropos here since I just wrote another post on voice this past Monday. Here it is: One of my blog buddies, Renny, suggested I answer this […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015

Writing

Writing to Voice

Ah, voice. That mysterious and sometimes elusive quality that everyone looks for in writing. Agents and editors seek it and readers turn pages like crazy when it is present. Your favorite blogs have it. Your favorite characters have one. Non-fiction books are written in specific voices, and magazines have a voice keyed to their demographic–O […]

Charlotte Rains Dixon 14 years ago11/03/2015