The sound of your writing
28th April 2017 | for Creatives | writing, poetry, artist's voice, Ursula K. Le Guin |
"What young writers always talk about—'finding your voice'—well, you can't find your own voice if you aren't listening for it. The sound of your writing is an essential part of what it's doing. Our teaching of writing tends to ignore it, except maybe in poetry. And so we get prose that goes 'clunk, clunk, clunk.' And we don't know what's wrong with it."
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