Posted on August 17, 2023 at 1:05 PM by Sadye Scott-Hainchek
Spend enough time with any one person and you're likely to find yourself speaking like them (at least, that's my experience).
So it makes sense that the characters in your writing deserve to have distinctive voices, too, or at least they should in order to feel real to readers.
In the case of a memoir, that voice is actually your own; author Jennifer Cramer-Miller shares how she kickstarted her memoir and found the right voice for it at Women Writers, Women's Books.
But in the case of fiction, the narrator's voice isn't the same as as your own voice (or writing style).
Author, editor, and writing teacher Michelle Barker gives advice on how to find the narrator's voice (and also which techniques don't work) for Writers Helping Writers.
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