You'll come away from this talk with a clearer sense of how to revise for clarity and good company. We'll discuss: 1. An elegant definition of voice that clarifies a writer's everyday chores. 2. What an effective voice sounds like (hint: probably not like Tom Wolfe or Hunter Thompson). 3. How identifying your the right voice affects topic selection, reporting, scene setting, character development, pace, and meaning. 4. How to tell stories personally without getting in the middle of them. 5. Half-a-dozen simple, reliable edits for cleaner, more direct, companionable and entertaining sentences. 6. How voice shapes readers' word-by-word experience--the core of what you're constructing.
