Voice

The term 'voice' is often misused in relation to POV. But the term actually refers to the author's 'voice'--their style, their unique approach or flavour--rather than any technical aspects of character, dialogue or POV.

In theory a writer's 'voice' should carry through all their work (or multiple voices in the cases of those writers who are accomplished enough to have multiple pennames/aliases and write for different genres).

You will often hear publishers calling for 'new voices'. That doesn't necessarily mean 'new writers'. They want new styles, new approaches, fresh...well, voices!

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