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VOICE TRAIT of Writing

VOICE TRAIT of Writing. Let your personality shine through in your writing!. Choose an event in your life to write about. The time my youngest daughter Sophie developed a serious sinus infection causing her eye to swell up which landed her in the hospital for a week .

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VOICE TRAIT of Writing

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  1. VOICE TRAITof Writing Let your personality shine through in your writing!

  2. Choose an event in your life to write about. • The time my youngest daughter Sophie developed a serious sinus infection causing her eye to swell up which landed her in the hospital for a week

  3. How did you feel about this event? • Worried and scared because of how quickly Sophie’s eye swelled up when I thought she just had a cold • Uncertain of what would happen to her in the hospital • Relying on God to give me the strength to get through this • Grateful for the expert medical team at Rady’s Children’s Hospital

  4. Words emergency room, shots, doctors, nurses, i.v. needles, CAT scans, wheel chair, pain, fever, hospital bed, pills, crying, whimpering, “Mommy,” purplish, swollen, shiner, puffy, questions, few answers, uncertainty, waiting, praying, staying calm, being optimistic, being honest

  5. Phrases • scared to death about what was happening • cool as a cucumber so Sophie wouldn’t be more scared • living in a nightmare that I couldn’t stop • full of guilt that I hadn’t taken her to the doctor myself and been there for her • holding my baby to make her feel safe

  6. Details • Nana took Sophie to doctor for cold and her eye puffed up while she was there • Dr. Gina gave her a big shot and said to watch her closely (serious if it got bigger) • Sophie woke up next morning with her eye swollen shut • Took her to E.R. at Palomar and spent most of the day waiting for M.D. to make a diagnosis with CAT scan • Drove to Rady’s and carried Sophie into hospital (glad to be out of Palomar—yuck!) • Spent days hoping and praying that the drugs would work on her infection so her eye would go down and her fever would stop

  7. Images • Sophie laying there helpless, in pain, and scared---so sick and lifeless • Stark and cold E.R. at Palomar--noisy • Doctors and nurses parading in and out all day long asking questions and checking her eye out—kept repeating myself • Sleeping at night next to her praying for healing and continually looking at her eye to see if the swelling had gone down • Imagining what life would be like if she didn’t get better with drugs and had to have surgery--yikes

  8. So how do I add my VOICE? • Use the words, phrases, details, and images that show what you were feeling and thinking. • Why did this memory make a lasting impression on you? • How did the event you described make you feel when it happened, and how does this memory make you feel now?

  9. So how do I add my VOICE? • Dialogue • Quote • Similes • Humor • Details • Self-Talk • Self-Reflection • Rhetorical questions

  10. Remember, your VOICE will shine through if . . . • Your writing sounds like you are talking • You love your topic (or really like it!) • The reader can “hear” your personality

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