Flexing Your Fiction Voice

Exhuming Voices of Greatness

A good way to experiment with and change your rhythm when writing your fiction stories is to experiment with voice. Think of some of your favorite authors or some of the greats. Try writing your story incorporating that voice. For example, maybe you want to enhance your stories with your version of Hemingway, Maya Angelou, Edgar Allan Poe, Arthur Conan Doyle, or perhaps, even The Bard himself. You know who some of your favorite ones are.

Today, I am choosing to demonstrate with the ever so familiar nursery rhyme, Humpty Dumpty.

Oh, the wall in yon distance so gleameth!

Master Humpty Dumpy

this day would sitteth.

Hark! The Ides of cold, brittle March

cometh forth.

My master, go away — ever so swift,

but alas,

The fateful crash!

Now all the kings’ horses

and all the kings’ men

can never put Master Dumpty

back together again.

Speak no more woe!

The master now sleeps in deep slumber.

The wall, the wall, stone by stone

it stands as if cemented

over an unspeakable sin.