Agents and editors always say they are looking for a fresh “voice.” So what does that mean, and how do you create one? In this workshop, we tease apart point of view (viewpoint) and narrative voice. Then, we’ll examine how to harness viewpoint to create a voice that makes characters, setting, dialogue, and action far more compelling.
Topics include:
Point of view and voice: what are they
Deciding who gets to narrate and why it matters
What makes a compelling voice
Parallax, and using it to narrow and focus the narrative
Looking at the narrators in your book and shaping their voices
The challenge of writing an unreliable narrator
The challenge of writing multiple narrators
