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Your Writing Voice--How to Develop It, Recognize It, Not Copy Someone Else's

Your Writing Voice--How to Develop It, Recognize It, Not Copy Someone Else's

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Mary Carroll Moore
Aug 25, 2017
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One of my long-time students asked a great question this week:  how does a writer develop voice?  

Voice is the elusive uniqueness that comes out in writing over time, the signature of the individual wordsmith.  We would never mistake a passage by Flannery O'Connor with one by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. 

What makes them different, distinctive? Each delight…

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