I hadn’t thought about it before, but now that she points it out, I think KKR has a point here. There is a blanding of voice going on in today’s publishing landscape. You can pick up books by half a dozen different authors and have difficulty telling them apart. (Not only because of voice, either. A lot of people are trying to write the same books, because those books sell.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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She calls out the Clarion Writers’ Workshop in particular. I’ve heard from other sources that Clarion graduates do tend to write similar stories (which become part of the expectation of what a pro story is like, so even people who haven’t been to Clarion start writing that way).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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I disagree with Rusch about head-hopping – I think it is<\/em> a fault, and disorienting to the reader, unless you’re in omniscient POV (at which point it isn’t head-hopping) – but her main point is valid. I’ve experienced several critiques which seem to be aimed at flattening out my style and voice into the way the critiquer would express things, and generally that comes from a critiquer who is not as well-read as I am – who has mainly read recent books which are written in the bland, generic “Serious Writer Voice”.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Originally shared by Kristine Kathryn Rusch<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n\n\n\n Today’s Business Blog looks at a weird phenomenon I call “Serious Writer Voice.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n