The Voice

Good morning one and all. It's Monday.

My voice has been changing recently thanks to Helena Katz. I am just finishing up her query writing course. She has been published in many magazines and that's where I want to get published so I thought what a great opportunity the course would be. It definitely has been.

My queries were not quite focused enough and way too long. I have successfully trimmed down two of my ideas and I am going to work on the third today. The course ends on Friday. I have even sent out my first idea already so I cross my fingers on that one!

It's really amazing how many different skills we have to learn to be writers. Some of them overlap of course, but some of them really don't. For example, learning to focus my ideas and present them in a clear and concise way helps all my writing. It definitely is a necessary skill when writing a magazine article. And I use those same skills writing high tech collateral of course (this is for you again J-M), but learning the high tech language is very specific only to that genre of writing.

That's also the case for children's fiction. The voice of children's writing is very unique. I am working away on my fiction book and that is full of emotion and description and breath. The characters dance through my mind as I craft the story. It 's a wonderful feeling.

I can't say that writing high tech collateral dances exactly. It's more like using a scalpel and carefully crafting the sentences. It's a highly skilled job that requires patience, clarity and Google (as a necessary reference).

I wish you all a wonderful Monday.

And if I get a magazine assignment you'll be the first to know!