Classic Author Voice

This workshop focuses on what it takes to develop your original author voice.

How to help your original author voice come out. Things to do to help. And things not to do that kill an author voice.

Boring always hurts stories. Your original author voice, your personal voice, makes stories interesting and original.

The Character Voice workshop helps writers understand how to make characters distinct and different. Depth workshop helps you pull readers down into stories using characters.

But what sells stories and makes them memorable to readers often turns on the author voice. And since author voice is our natural voice, we can’t hear it or see it without training. That author voice seems boring to each of us, so writers often take out of their stories the very thing that makes the story original and different and memorable.

Some of the many details about this workshop

— An awareness workshop to start with. The only way to really understand some of these more advanced craft techniques is to become aware of the technique. That goes triple for author voice.

— How to see and identify an author voice, including your own. Once you see another author’s author voice and how it is used, you can see your own author voice much, much better.

— How to know when to use your author voice and when not to. How to even control author voice when you want to.

— How to do more author voice openings to pull readers into your stories. (This is talked about a little bit in Advanced Depth, but mostly Character Voice openings, not author voice openings.)

— How to sustain author voice, when to pull it back, how to spice it through your stories.

— And a ton more. A workshop suitable for a writer at any level. It never hurts to start understanding your author voice.

This might be the most eye-opening workshop we do for writers.