How one writer found that elusive thing... their "voice"...

[KateESal]

I've just finished Love, Nina by Nina Stibbe....it's a memoir told in epistolary form and highly entertaining. Definitely recommended if you want a laugh.

Anyway, I also found this article from The Guardian about how Nina Stibbe had been writing fiction for decades before the memoir came out, but had struggled to find her "voice". It's something we often discuss in the Huddles or on Pop-Up Submissions, or in various threads. A "voice" is very hard to nail down, but if you can, it's a lot easier to hook an agent and a publishing deal. Or so we're told!

Maybe — like Nina Stibbe — you had your voice all along, but you didn't realise....

 

[Jonny]

Super piece @KateESal

Off now to add Love, Nina to my reading list. Sounds like it right up my strasse. Love the description of the poets - especially Heaney.

 

[Hannah F]

Love the articles last sentences. Hmm. As I like where I live, they'll all just have to move here.

 

[KateESal]

Off now to add Love, Nina to my reading list. Sounds like it right up my strasse.

I can say with a high degree of confidence that it will indeed be up your strasse, Jon

 

[Vagabond Heart]

I loved the TV dramatisation of that. Did you see it?

 

[KateESal]

Would love to see it, but can't get BBC where we live....

 

[Vagabond Heart]

Would love to see it, but can't get BBC where we live....
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Oh how annoying for you. Still, book’s probably better anyway xxx