So, better late than never, right? Here, finally is the hand-out from my YALC ‘Develop Your Writing Voice’ workshop. Thank you so much to everyone who was there on the day and made the chaos so much fun! (Disclaimer: ‘cover’ image of the YALC authors by Rowan Spray.)
Developing a unique writing voice is not about trying to be different. It’s about recognising how you’re already different and unique, then harnessing that.
That was the core message of the workshop: it’s at the heart of discovering and developing your voice as a writer.
But what is voice? There’s no accepted definition, partly because it’s a somewhat woolly concept, but also because it’s so hard to pin down in theory – it’s much easier to identify aspects of a specific writer’s voice in practice. But that’s not how to discover your own.
Voice is partly about the things that make a piece of writing…
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