Comments on: Voices http://www.steveersinghaus.com/archives/1688 Wed, 21 Jul 2010 18:51:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Mary Ellen http://www.steveersinghaus.com/archives/1688/comment-page-1#comment-48818 Mary Ellen Tue, 09 Jun 2009 02:19:07 +0000 http://www.steveersinghaus.com/?p=1688#comment-48818 I did notice, especially in the paragraph you highlighted, a serenity to your words. To use a lame boating analogy, it was like you had broken through the chop to the center of the stream where the clean water is. It still "sounds" like you, as in author's voice, but there is also a singing behind it all of clear thoughts and focused aim. I absolutely think voice from one story can influence another either way. I try to recapture certain feelings from writing a passage to help my flow. Sometimes it is a useful tool. Sometimes it turns the current thing into crap. And I would say if an author hits a particularly vibrant tone for one story, it is rather off limits for future works unless one wants to mimic the same tension and flow. It may be too "sounds like" for the second piece to stand alone. (Leaving your hypertext musings for S.) And please tell your Susan that I'm enjoying her photos immensely--she is dead on every single day. I did notice, especially in the paragraph you highlighted, a serenity to your words. To use a lame boating analogy, it was like you had broken through the chop to the center of the stream where the clean water is. It still “sounds” like you, as in author’s voice, but there is also a singing behind it all of clear thoughts and focused aim. I absolutely think voice from one story can influence another either way. I try to recapture certain feelings from writing a passage to help my flow. Sometimes it is a useful tool. Sometimes it turns the current thing into crap. And I would say if an author hits a particularly vibrant tone for one story, it is rather off limits for future works unless one wants to mimic the same tension and flow. It may be too “sounds like” for the second piece to stand alone. (Leaving your hypertext musings for S.)

And please tell your Susan that I’m enjoying her photos immensely–she is dead on every single day.

]]>