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Developing your voice. Part 1

BA Hons creative writing creative writing creativity JD Salinger
Posted: 22/06/17 09:15 | 0 Comments

The idea of developing ‘your voice’ is not just an idea limited to X Factor. Or, for that matter, Britain’s Got Talent. It is a term publishers and agents often use when critiquing new writers. How strong is their ‘voice’? But what is meant by this term, and how can we develop our voice, as a writer, to make it stronger?

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What is unique about your character?

character creative writing JD Salinger plot Uca Oca
Posted: 08/06/17 09:08 | 0 Comments

In real life, we share the premise that ‘everyone is unique’. A basic premise, I know – but an important one. When helping students to write creatively it has struck me how in many instances our characters are just the same.

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