Voice is the feeling behind the words, and readers usually notice it before they can name it. In writing, voice is not the same as plot, tone, or point of view, even though the three often work together. Readers pick it up from recurring choices in vocabulary, sentence length, rhythm, imagery, distance, and attitude, which […]
You've written a narrator who sounds confident, vivid, and just slightly wrong. The problem is that “slightly wrong” can mean two very different things: a character with a limited point of view, or a narrator whose account actively misleads the reader. If you haven't decided which one you're writing, revision becomes guesswork. You add a […]
Narrative voice is the sum of choices a writer makes about who speaks, how they speak, and where they stand relative to events. In modern narratology, that question became a formal one in the early 1970s, which is why readers still get tangled when they try to separate voice from style, tone, and point of […]