voice Archives - Women Writers, Women's Books https://booksbywomen.org/tag/voice/ Sat, 10 Dec 2016 06:28:09 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.3 39938774 How to Prevent Your Characters from All Sounding the Same https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-prevent-your-characters-from-all-sounding-the-same-by-louise-marley/ https://booksbywomen.org/how-to-prevent-your-characters-from-all-sounding-the-same-by-louise-marley/#respond Mon, 02 Jan 2017 13:31:11 +0000 http://booksbywomen.org/?p=17300 At the start of my career I had a book rejected because the commissioning editor didn’t feel my characters were ‘coming across’. I think she was trying to find a polite way of saying they were flat and dull – ‘cardboard’ characters, if you like – which is about the worst thing you can say […]

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