“Voice is the je ne sais quoi of spirited writing. It separates brochures and brilliance, memo and memoir, a ship's log and The Old Man and the Sea. The best writers stamp prose with their own distinctive personality; their timbre and tone are as recognizable as their voices on the phone. To cultivate voice, you must listen for the music of language-the vernacular, the syntactic tics, the cadences.” MenWritingLanguageVoiceSeaPersonalityPhonesMemoirShipsToneProseOld ManStampsBrillianceDistinctiveSpiritedCadenceVernacularTicsMemosTimbreBrochures Book:Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose Source: Sin and Syntax: How to Craft Wickedly Effective Prose
“Writers dream of sentences that sail through the waters of thought. We try to control their shape and size, and we struggle to let them glide, rather than thrash at sea.” TryingDreamWaterStruggleSeaShapesSizeSentencesSail Author:Constance Hale
