Thanks. I liked reading this and esp. "Absorb the patterns made by the human voice ... and ... Grow that instinct for the sound of words, and how words can be used and put on a page."
Thanks! I'm curious too as to how this might play out in languages other than English. Do report back with any Swedish findings! I don't know enough about Swedish to understand whether there are styles of expression that would be significantly different. I know that in the UK there would be regional differences for sure.
I didn't see this one. Thank you for drawing my attention to it. I am a habitual eavesdropper...I also wonder if my former life as an actress in Australia may have placed me in good stead in terms of getting the Voice working for my characters. It is the narrator voice which is the trickiest for writers, I find :)
Oh! I am sure: actressing, and also Australia, which has a linguistic culture with some of the most lively language and idioms, I find.
And yes - that elusive narrative voice. But sometimes, if we stop thinking about it and get out of our own way, I think that narrative voice is just a quick step to the side of the voice we already have …
This one's my favorite!: ‘I’ve got champagne for my doctor, and Prosecco for his assistant!’ My god. Loved all the musings on overheard dialogue here. Thank you for bringing me back to Bobbie's Monologue class, which was perhaps my favorite I took at Naropa. Magical. I used to capture my dialogue on the bus in Boulder. The seats would help me hide as I wrote! I still carry a little notebook around, though I no longer capture people's voices in it. Maybe I should!
That workshop was the best I ever took! We were so lucky to have such a great group too.
Also: the champagne/prosecco OHD came complete with servants! A doorman and someone who seemed to be a maid (a male one at that) and too there was the driver they were waiting for. This woman had a posh accent but I wondered if there were tinges of hard-scrabble origins beneath. Oh! The joys of observation - and making up stories.
Thanks. I liked reading this and esp. "Absorb the patterns made by the human voice ... and ... Grow that instinct for the sound of words, and how words can be used and put on a page."
Thanks! I'm curious too as to how this might play out in languages other than English. Do report back with any Swedish findings! I don't know enough about Swedish to understand whether there are styles of expression that would be significantly different. I know that in the UK there would be regional differences for sure.
I didn't see this one. Thank you for drawing my attention to it. I am a habitual eavesdropper...I also wonder if my former life as an actress in Australia may have placed me in good stead in terms of getting the Voice working for my characters. It is the narrator voice which is the trickiest for writers, I find :)
Oh! I am sure: actressing, and also Australia, which has a linguistic culture with some of the most lively language and idioms, I find.
And yes - that elusive narrative voice. But sometimes, if we stop thinking about it and get out of our own way, I think that narrative voice is just a quick step to the side of the voice we already have …
Nice point...yes, that narrative voice takes a lot of self-confidence and knowledge to extract sometimes however, doesn't it!?
I agree. I think a lot of the work lies in dropping the self-consciousness, you know?
Yes and that is 3/4 of the challenge/ hurdle for those to whom VOICE does not come naturally. Meditation helps, you know :)
This one's my favorite!: ‘I’ve got champagne for my doctor, and Prosecco for his assistant!’ My god. Loved all the musings on overheard dialogue here. Thank you for bringing me back to Bobbie's Monologue class, which was perhaps my favorite I took at Naropa. Magical. I used to capture my dialogue on the bus in Boulder. The seats would help me hide as I wrote! I still carry a little notebook around, though I no longer capture people's voices in it. Maybe I should!
That workshop was the best I ever took! We were so lucky to have such a great group too.
Also: the champagne/prosecco OHD came complete with servants! A doorman and someone who seemed to be a maid (a male one at that) and too there was the driver they were waiting for. This woman had a posh accent but I wondered if there were tinges of hard-scrabble origins beneath. Oh! The joys of observation - and making up stories.