The thing you are trying to find is the voice. This is the single most important thing in any novel. The voice. How it will sound. Who is telling the story? Why is he telling it? If you're sixty years old and writing in the first person singular about a sixteen-year-old high school student, beware of the voice. It may be your own, and that is wrong.
Evan Hunter in The Writer's Handbook, Sylvia K. Burack, editor, 1986
Evan Hunter in The Writer's Handbook, Sylvia K. Burack, editor, 1986
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