day 4

toooo long to explain so ill update it in the morning i am going to knock out!

bon noite <3

ps. thank you lucas and isabella for everything!

readings

ch. 6 - Finding a Voice and a Style

Writers crave an individual style, and while we yearn for distinctive voice for ourselves or the subjects we profite, those goals remain among our greatest challenges, and even experiences practitioners can retreat into debates over their mystery. Many science writers also must contend with journalistic precepts that subjugate or even eliminate individual style.

For the purpose of this chapter, we will define voice as a writer's personality on the page. Style is the personality imposed on our writing by outside rules and/or our own techniques and mindset. Voice is an individual writing personality, whether distinctively on our own, one we recount or create, or sometimes inescapably.

1. Study strong voices. Learn how to identify specific technical elements of voice and style.

2. Imitate. Exchange and discuss imitations with writing compatriots.

3. Freewriting and journaling. It involves putting your fingers to pen or keyboard fora certain number of minutes each day and writing about the first thing that comes to mind and continuing to write about it without lifting your fingers and working about punctuation or spelling or language or even how to express yourself but sticking to the subject and trying to relate the first thoughts that come to mind.

4. Tape yourself. Have someone record yourself without your knowing it. Anayze how you speak.

5. Revise for style. rewrite different in comparison of another magazine

6. Don't write what you know. Avoid subject that you are close to. Research and find more information about your topic.

7. Examine your personal letters or e-mails. This writing often is designed to express feelings than ideas to speak casually rather than publicly.

your writing personality is confirmed by how comfortable you are with it. even if you cannot define either term, the more you give voice and style to your words, the more singularly the individual a writer you will become.

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