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@wordsmith Thanks for deepening your previous discussion! I’m afraid I’m having a hard time following you. That might be from your heavy elliptical style, but it’s probably just me.

So I think that everyone so far, you and myself included, agree that voice is “Those aspects of writing which, intentionally or not, differ you from other writers.”

And we probably each have our own degrees to which we think those “aspects” can be attributed to voice and not just to something like genre.

That brings me back to the furthermore Edmund mentioned. If voice is a subjective thing, how do we determine whether it needs to change or how it can change? Specifically regarding Daeus’ note on the Butlerian notion of a germ of yearning at the core of your writing, I think that’s a tough thing. I already mentioned how I develop style, but I’m at a loss for developing yearning and all the accoutrement of life that seems like it creates some of our greatest writers.

Aside from seeking a fraught life, I mean, which isn’t something I tend toward on my own. I like my wee cloister of an apartment in its space far away from social activity, thank you very much.

@edmund-lloyd-fletcher At this point, what are your thoughts on our thoughts?