13d • Write My Book
DAY 4 - HOW?
HOW are you going to tell your story?
This is more than sentence style or voice. It’s about perspective, the lens, the tempo. This is the structure behind your story, the start of the framework we’ve been building. Sometimes you may change your mind halfway through—but the clearer you are now, the less likely you are to lose momentum later.
The first thing I like to figure out is the story’s point of view. Once you know who’s telling the story, then you can consider how the story is being told. Do you have a narrator that’s reliable, snarky, or unreliable?
Then it’s a good idea to figure out if you’re in the present or the past. What tense are you using? Are things happening now, or going to happen, or was this all in the past?
Then there is the voice. Voice and tone can change and evolve as you write, just like your character, but it helps to begin with a vision. Will your language be lush and lyrical or sharp and sparse? Are you trying to sound like a child? A poet? A weary adult who’s seen too much?
Voice isn’t just about the words; it’s about attitude, rhythm, and presence on the page. It’s the part of you your readers will feel even when they can’t name it.
I know this one is a lot to take in. But break it down into one piece at time.
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