Write Voice

Write Voice

Finding Your Tone

There’s that old adage, everyone can sing. Some people can sing so well that they make a career out of it. I believe that since everyone can sing, everyone can write. What does your “writing” voice sound like? Margaret Atwood? Maybe it’s a mixture between Doyali Islam and Mordecai Richler. Maybe you haven’t found your “voice” yet.

Different Styles?

Your memoir isn’t going to sound the same as another memoir. We all have different styles. Music runs the gamut from traditional opera, to country, to pop and this is the same with books. Like singers, writers all have different voices.

How to Find Your Voice

The first step (and biggest) in finding your writing voice is to write. Sounds simple doesn’t it yet many people avoid putting in the work. Singers don’t step on stage without practicing a single note. Writers should also be working on writing.

Another way to find your voice is through other writers. Read your favourite authors and see how they structure their sentences, express tone and use words to take you on journeys.

Experiment with Your Voice

Get out of your comfort zone and write in the third person or the first. Write a song. Write a poem. Write a screenplay. Write something funny. Write something sad. Write something scary. Write something that takes you in another direction.

Hire a Professional

It sounds like a contradiction – have someone find my voice for me? But it’s not like that. A voice coach brings out the best in a singer. A writing coach does the same thing for a writer.

If you’re looking to strengthen your “voice,” I offer personalized instruction and coaching in craft and practice. Talk to me! By the way, I’ve always thought my voice was a sprinkle of Lucy Maud Montgomery with a pinch of Ernest Hemingway.

Creative Challenge – tell me how you're developing your voice.

Memoir prompt

Write a story about a time a song connected with you.

What did the song mean to you then?

What memories does the song evoke today?

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Little Free Library Project

I’ve been working on a new fiction novel for several years and now is the time to release it to readers.

My psychological thriller/suspense book, You, Me and Here, is about a married couple who go on a canoe trip on Great Slave Lake in the Northwest Territories. One of them doesn’t return…

I’ve decided to put the first chapter in Free Little Libraries because I would like some exercise walking/running/cycling to boxes around Edmonton and Calgary. I’m also posting a new chapter every Tuesday and Thursday on Wattpad, an online writing platform.

I’m experimenting with style and voice in the book. Let me know if it works for you.

There’s a bit of suspense and mystery amidst NWT nature. Go on a slightly maddening journey from Fort Smith to Lutsel K’e to Yellowknife!

Storry Links

Some interesting stories and articles for you.

Sometimes, publishing a book doesn’t turn an author into a happiness fountain.

Mapping your childhood memories – one writer uses this technique to uncover stories.

Did you know that the first Islamic cemetery in North America is a small Syrian Muslim cemetery located in Nova Scotia?

Listen to a letter from a son to his family in the first world war.

Need a little push in the write direction?

I’ll coach you to finish your stories.

Contact your storyteller, Lea Storry, today.