{"id":9018,"date":"2013-07-19T14:00:13","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T21:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/?p=9018"},"modified":"2013-07-19T14:31:53","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T21:31:53","slug":"hearing-your-writing-voice-by-kay-keppler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/19\/hearing-your-writing-voice-by-kay-keppler\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearing Your Writing Voice by Kay Keppler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Zero Gravity Outcasts by Kay Keppler\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/S0TqmA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/S0TqmA\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-6519\" style=\"margin: 6px;\" alt=\"Zero Gravity Outcasts by Kay Keppler\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts-189x300.jpg\" width=\"189\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts-647x1024.jpg 647w, https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/KK_ZeroGravityOutcasts.jpg 810w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 189px) 100vw, 189px\" \/><\/a>Welcome to the next installment of craft posts by monthly guest columnist,\u00a0<a title=\"Kay Keppler\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/SS5HMB\" target=\"_blank\">Kay Keppler<\/a>, on novel writing.\u00a0Today she\u2019ll help you with developing a strong writing voice.<\/p>\n<p>You can contact\u00a0<a title=\"Kay\" href=\"http:\/\/kaykeppler.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kay<\/a>\u00a0through the\u00a0<a title=\"Writer\u2019s Fun Zone\" href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Writer\u2019s Fun Zone<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0or at\u00a0<a title=\"kaykeppler AT yahoo DOT com\" href=\"mailto: kaykeppler@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">kaykeppler AT yahoo DOT com<\/a>\u00a0to ask questions, suggest topics, or tell her she\u2019s off her rocker. (She let me say that!)<\/p>\n<p>***<\/p>\n<p>Recently I ran across a novel by a well-known eighteenth-century novelist. It begins like this:<\/p>\n<p>It was the middle of a bright tropical afternoon that we made good our escape from the bay. The vessel we sought lay with her main-topsail aback about a league from the land and was the only object that broke the broad expanse of the ocean.<\/p>\n<p>Not bad, right? The lines suggest some questions that readers might want to pursue: Why did the narrator want to escape the bay, and from what? Who is \u201cwe\u201d?<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>Call me Ishmael<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Some years later, that novelist wrote another book about the sea, using a first-person point of view and the sea as setting. It begins like this:<\/p>\n<p>Call me Ishmael. Some years ago\u2014never mind how long precisely\u2014having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world.<\/p>\n<p>While the opening of Herman Melville\u2019s <i>Omoo<\/i> is interesting, the opening of <i>Moby-Dick<\/i>, with its rolling rhythms, is irresistible. The difference: voice. And judging from these two passages, written some years apart, voice is something that can be developed over time.<\/p>\n<p><b>Developing your voice<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Every writer wants to develop a strong writing voice. In a novel, the author\u2019s voice usually belongs to a character. In <i>Moby-Dick<\/i>, the character\u2019s voice and the author\u2019s voice are the same, or at least deeply connected. But this is not always the case.<\/p>\n<p>Most novels have at least several\u2014and sometimes many\u2014characters, and you\u2019ll have to give each of them his or her own voice. These people might not come from the same geographic area. They might not be the same gender, race, age, or educational or economic background. They\u2019ll each need to speak with his or her own vocabulary and rhythm, and think his or her own thoughts. Even if you rely on only one character to carry the weight of your story, you might want the character\u2019s thoughts to have a voice different than the narrator\u2019s.<\/p>\n<p><b>Pay attention to structure<\/b><\/p>\n<p>To keep your characters and your narration distinct, you need to be particularly aware of sentence and paragraph structure. Variation is critical. Are all your sentences, for all your characters, essentially the same? Are they short and abrupt, or long and lyrical? Do you use mostly simple declarative sentences?<\/p>\n<p>If the passage seems flat, check for vagueness, abstractions, or anything that seems forced or obvious. Don\u2019t let the speech patterns of your characters become interchangeable. Don\u2019t use words or phrases in dialogue that you use in exposition.<\/p>\n<p><b>Know your characters<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Most of all, know who your characters are. Just as each person in life is different, so must your characters also be distinct individuals. Understand down to your bones what each character wants and fears. Know what their dreams and conflicts are. Then let them speak for themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Because when you listen to your characters\u2014when you truly hear them\u2014you\u2019ll hear your own strong, authorial voice. And that\u2019s the voice that your readers will remember.<\/p>\n<div>***<\/div>\n<div><a title=\"Kay Keppler, Author\" href=\"www.kaykeppler.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"www.kaykeppler.com\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-6537\" style=\"margin: 6px;\" title=\"Kay Keppler, Author\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Kay-Keppler_31.jpg\" width=\"151\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><a href=\"www.kaykeppler.com\" target=\"_blank\">Kay Keppler\u00a0<\/a>(<a title=\"www.kaykeppler.com\" href=\"www.kaykeppler.com\" target=\"_blank\">www.kaykeppler.com<\/a>) is an author (<em><a title=\"Zero Gravity Outcasts\" href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/S0TqmA\" target=\"_blank\">Zero Gravity Outcasts<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<em><a title=\"Betting on Hope\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005ISCTW6\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B005ISCTW6&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bethbaracreac-20\" target=\"_blank\">Betting on Hope<\/a><\/em>) and editor of fiction and nonfiction (<em><a title=\"Angel's Kiss\" href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B008PYM99I\/ref=as_li_qf_sp_asin_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=B008PYM99I&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=bethbaracreac-20\" target=\"_blank\">Angel\u2019s Kiss<\/a>, Outsource It!<\/em>) who lives in northern California. Contact her here or at\u00a0<a title=\"kaykeppler@yahoo.com\" href=\"https:\/\/writersfunzone.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/29\/building-the-protagonist-by-kay-keppler\/kaykeppler@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\">kaykeppler@yahoo.com<\/a>\u00a0to ask questions, suggest topics, or if you prefer, complain.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To keep your characters and your narration distinct, you need to be particularly aware of sentence and paragraph structure. 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