"It's just fiction, bro!" On UKLG and style, voice
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Voice is a tragically unexamined aspect of writing, so invisible yet so necessary. If it's doing its job well you don't think of it, like the plumbing, it's only when it acts up that a work becomes unreadable. Why do some authors depict their fictional universes so utterly, so memorably, so convincingly, while contemporaries seem forgettable and juvenile?
"It's just fiction, bro!" On UKLG and style, voice
"It's just fiction, bro!" On UKLG and style…
"It's just fiction, bro!" On UKLG and style, voice
Voice is a tragically unexamined aspect of writing, so invisible yet so necessary. If it's doing its job well you don't think of it, like the plumbing, it's only when it acts up that a work becomes unreadable. Why do some authors depict their fictional universes so utterly, so memorably, so convincingly, while contemporaries seem forgettable and juvenile?