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“Historical” Voice: Are We Letting it Go?

Posted by beckylevine on 5 Jan 2012 in Historical Fiction, Voice |16 Comments

I’m writing my historical YA in first person, present tense. I made a conscious choice to do this, way back when, because I am not fond of the dense, slow voice and pacing that can be one of the markers of historical fiction. I hoped present tense might let me get to more immediacy in […]

The Brilliance of Point of View in Jennifer R. Hubbard’s The Secret Year

Posted by beckylevine on 21 Jan 2010 in Point of View, Voice |15 Comments

When I was working on the critique book, I did a lot of research. (You didn’t think it all just poured freely out of my head, did you?) One of the many writing books I read was The Power of Point of View by Alicia Rasley. I’ve always loved books with a strong voice, and I […]

Reading for Writing

Posted by beckylevine on 27 Oct 2009 in Books, Reading, Tension, Voice |3 Comments

This week I isolated one of my worries about my current WIP–the worry that I don’t (yet!) know how to convey the tension the story needs and deserves. I’m not the most comfortable person with tension. In fact, as far as I’m concerned, books were invented for me (yes, for me) to escape life’s stresses. […]

Voice in Nonfiction

Posted by beckylevine on 8 Jan 2009 in Nonfiction, Voice |6 Comments

As I was thinking about this post today, I realized I haven’t written that much specifically about nonfiction. Which is odd, since that’s the genre that’s taking up the bulk of my writing hours these days. Maybe I’m buried so deeply in it that I’m not thinking so much about it from the outside. One […]