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The Writer's Voice: Techniques for Tuning Your Tone and Style

The Writer's Voice: Techniques for Tuning Your Tone and Style

The Writer’s Voice is a comprehensive, hands-on guide to the little-understood aspect of writing, voice.

2023

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The Case of the Missing Subject

There’s a subtle thief hiding in much nonfiction writing, stealing the life from sentences. Yes, it’s time to talk about dummy subjects —…

May 21

Mannequins without heads

May 21

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Are you trying too hard?

On finding “Easy Mode” in writing

Feb 20

keyboard with big orange Easy key

Feb 20

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From the Library

Consistency in Writing

Consistency is hard. That’s why it’s so rare–and so valuable.

Nov 29, 2021

Man running in the snow

Nov 29, 2021

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The Startup

Are You Planning or Resisting?

When you spend all your time planning instead of writing

Jan 17, 2022

Ladder at the end of a pier on a lake

Jan 17, 2022

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Using Humor in Nonfiction Writing

Why “serious” topics benefit from levity

Mar 13, 2022

Smiling red pencil in a bunch of grey pencils

Mar 13, 2022

How Readable Is Your Writing?

Why readability is part of your writing voice

Jun 5

How Readable Is Your Writing?

Jun 5

What do your paragraphs say about you?

A simple exercise in writing voice

May 7

image of first page of the first volume of George Kennan’s memoirs—all one paragraph

May 7

Tiny Writing Experiments

Do you have an abandoned manuscript in somewhere in your files? (Hint: most people who consider themselves writers do.) Not all ideas grow…

Apr 18

black letters spilling out of notebook, image from DepositPhoto

Apr 18

Swapping Big Goals for Tiny Experiments

A book review of Anne-Laure Le Cunff’s Tiny Experiments

Apr 15

the book Tiny Experiments in front of test tubes filled with colorful dots

Apr 15

Sentences that Sing

A simple exercise in writing voice

Apr 2

curve staffs of music (image DepositPhotos)

Apr 2

Anne Janzer

Anne Janzer

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Author, Nonfiction book coach. Unapologetic Nonfiction Geek. Writing about Writing Itself (very meta). AnneJanzer.com

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