Finding Your Writing Voice

Valhalla Erikson
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Finding Your Writing Voice Sept 14, 2021 11:31:54 GMT -6

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Post by Valhalla Erikson on Sept 14, 2021 11:31:54 GMT -6

There have been many professional writer that have inspired me to become one myself: Stephen King, Jim Butcher, and Neil Gaiman comes to mind.

Despite those influences I want to find my own writing style. So I created this topic to ask how do you know when you've developed your own way to tell a story?

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Finding Your Writing Voice Sept 14, 2021 20:43:34 GMT -6

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Post by bilance on Sept 14, 2021 20:43:34 GMT -6

I would say once your characters have a distinctive voice apart from one another, that will be the writing style of the story because majority of the story will be written through their narrative. Another way to develop your own way of writing would be the unique way you present a situation, the specials actions that other done that other writers probably won't have their characters carry out, balancing the amount of details and the focus of those specific details.

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Finding Your Writing Voice Sept 16, 2021 18:53:58 GMT -6 via mobile

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Post by pelwrath on Sept 16, 2021 18:53:58 GMT -6

So, my writing voice is having distinctly different characters that are developed and defined, like the writers I like reading. Asimov, H. Beam Piper, A. Dumas, James Hogan., etc.
Makes sense but in all honesty, I couldn’t describe my writers voice except as dialogue driven.
If anyone here can better define my writers voice, please let me know. It’s a question I’ve seen/heard asked in interviews and such.

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