Congratulations to you both on the Stabby! No matter how the other awards shake out, you can proudly say that you've won perhaps the most pragmatically useful award of the season. :D
Your thoughts about how Final Draft has made you re-examine voice in general and your voice specifically are fascinating. I'm trying to learn as much about voice as I can. Voice is one of those things that seems nebulous and mysterious until you have enough experience and have put in time doing the homework, at which point you "get it". At least, that's what dozens of writers and editors and agents have led me to believe on Twitter. I'm working on the "getting it" part.
Re: voice, I always link it to something Elizabeth Bear once wrote on LJ lo these many years ago -- that writers often go through a "garage band" phase, where they're doing consistently competent work & getting gigs as a consequence but haven't found their sound yet. Reading that was the first time it occurred to me that there was a goal beyond just "making a sale," that it had to do with becoming more myself in my work, & I found that invaluable.
Hello there! I was one of the giveaway winners from the other month, but I'm not sure if my emails to you made it through. Also, congratulations to you both! I think that there's nothing better than receiving daggers in the mail to mark an achievement. They're quite the cutting edge award :)
So cool.
Congratulations to you both on the Stabby! No matter how the other awards shake out, you can proudly say that you've won perhaps the most pragmatically useful award of the season. :D
Your thoughts about how Final Draft has made you re-examine voice in general and your voice specifically are fascinating. I'm trying to learn as much about voice as I can. Voice is one of those things that seems nebulous and mysterious until you have enough experience and have put in time doing the homework, at which point you "get it". At least, that's what dozens of writers and editors and agents have led me to believe on Twitter. I'm working on the "getting it" part.
Thank you!
Re: voice, I always link it to something Elizabeth Bear once wrote on LJ lo these many years ago -- that writers often go through a "garage band" phase, where they're doing consistently competent work & getting gigs as a consequence but haven't found their sound yet. Reading that was the first time it occurred to me that there was a goal beyond just "making a sale," that it had to do with becoming more myself in my work, & I found that invaluable.
Hello there! I was one of the giveaway winners from the other month, but I'm not sure if my emails to you made it through. Also, congratulations to you both! I think that there's nothing better than receiving daggers in the mail to mark an achievement. They're quite the cutting edge award :)
HA!! Precisely!