Voice in Creative Nonfiction
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Finally, an Understandable Definition of “Voice” in Nonfiction
Have you ever noticed how writing experts tend to trip and fumble when they try to explain the concept of voice in nonfiction? They may say that voice is that undefinable something that makes your writing your own. It’s the magic on the page that allows readers to recognize you, the speaker of the text, Continue reading
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How to Begin a Personal Essay
No one wrote more provocative first lines of poems than Emily Dickinson. Who could read an opening line such as I felt a Funeral, in my Brain or I heard a Fly buzz—when I died and not feel compelled to read on? When we write introductions for personal essays, our impulse may be to rely Continue reading
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Why Sometimes It Takes a Hermit Crab to Get the Person on the Page
Voice is that hard-to-define, easy-to-recognize element that contributes to creative nonfiction’s wide-ranging appeal with readers. Memoirists and personal essay writers in particular are tasked with providing readers with the sense that the written words convey a genuine personality—that a real person speaks the message. They have to get the person on the page. When we Continue reading
Do you write about yourself and your experiences? Do you write about traumatic events in your life? Or, do you struggle to find time and motivation to write?
If so, this blog is for you.
Person on the Page 