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Episode 49: Talk Pretty, Talk Turkey—Just, You Know, Talk To Me
Episode 49: Talk Pretty, Talk Turkey—Just, You Know, Talk To Me
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Length:
58 minutes
Released:
Jun 25, 2014
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Podcast episode
Description
“Find your voice”—the most natural thing a writer should do, right? Somewhere inside me is my voice! Yet, the search tends to proceed like a grail quest, only trickier, because ‘voice’ pops up everywhere on the page, appearing now in the style, now in the sound, now in the stance, now in the details. So, is it the bedrock DNA of great writing, or a will-o-the-wisp? Should we follow the fiction writer Sylvia Watanabe’s advice, “Don’t try to find your voice; write a story”? In this Eleventh Hour session we’ll try to un-confuse an elusive all-inclusive concept, and we’ll start by looking at what ‘voice’ means to poets and what it does and doesn’t mean to fiction writers. Bring paper, we’ll be experimenting with a few exercises!
Released:
Jun 25, 2014
Format:
Podcast episode
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