tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post3396500018394590552..comments2024-03-27T06:42:26.250-07:00Comments on Seven Miles of Steel Thistles: Hearing Voices - the Do's and Don'ts of DialogueKatherine Langrishhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-69797546289712528582010-03-19T11:30:06.334-07:002010-03-19T11:30:06.334-07:00I thought Bucephalos's 'voice' worked ...I thought Bucephalos's 'voice' worked wonderfully, Katherine, so all your work certainly paid off. And that's the point - you do have to work at it! I haven't read 'Candy', but 'Till We Have faces' by C.S. Lewis is - I think - a fantastic success at writing in the female first person - his best book, in my opinion, and oddly from a man who in other respects did not have many women in his life.Katherine Langrishhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12529700103932422873noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4950999049789394042.post-71095157647787000382010-03-19T10:13:29.442-07:002010-03-19T10:13:29.442-07:00I agree first person voices are tricky to get righ...I agree first person voices are tricky to get right... I spent ages working out a "horse" voice for the Great Horse with a special horse vocabulary and everything, yet had to keep deleting bits that sounded too much like me. Still, the horse was easier than trying to write a first person boy's voice. (I had a go at this in my Genghis Khan romance, but obviously failed miserably since it remains unpublished!)<br /><br />A book that impressed me was Kevin Brooks' "Candy" with a first person teenage girl's voice written by a man.Katherine Robertshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.com