Writer’s Voice

1. Writer’s Voice How to add life to your words.

2. Journal Prompt

3. Mystery Authors • Read the following slides. • Try to guess the identity of the author based upon the author’s “voice.” • Think about the author’s: • Age • Gender • Race • Nationality • Audience • Purpose for writing http://writeanovelfast.com/three-ways-to-make-your-mystery-novel-stand-out-in-the-crowd/

4. “A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss.”

5. “There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.”

6. “My restlessness is my nemesis.It's hard to really chill and sit still.Committed to page, I write rhymes.Sometimes won't finish for days.Scrutinize my literature, from the large to the miniature.I mathematically add-minister.Subtract the wack.”

7. “Great God, she thought, where do I start? Get somebody to write old Whitlow. See who took Patty and Rosa Lee. Somebody name Dunn got Ardelia and went West, she heard.”

8. “I want to suggest that these concerns – autonomy, authority, newness and difference, absolute power – not only become the major themes and presumptions of American literature, but that each one is made possible by, shaped by, activated by a complex awareness and employment of a constituted Africanism.”

9. So, who are they?

10. “A Harvard Medical School study has determined that rectal thermometers are still the best way to tell a baby's temperature. Plus, it really teaches the baby who's boss. ” Tina Fey (1970-Present) is a popular comedian and actress. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tina_fey -Tina Fey

11. “There's a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious—makes you so sick at heart—that you can't take part. You can't even passively take part. And you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon the levers, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, to the people who own it that unless you're free, the machine will be prevented from working at all.” Mario Savio (1942 – 1996) was an Italian-American political activist. He was particularly interested in civil rights in the US south. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Savio -Mario Savio Speech at a civil rights rally at UC Berkeley 1964

12. “My restlessness is my nemesis.It's hard to really chill and sit still. Committed to page, I write rhymes. Sometimes won't finish for days.Scrutinize my literature, from the large to the miniature.I mathematically add-minister.Subtract the wack.” Mos Def(1973-Present) is a well known hip hop artist. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mos_def -Mos Def “Hip-Hop”

13. “Great God, she thought, where do I start? Get somebody to write old Whitlow. See who took Patty and Rosa Lee. Somebody name Dunn got Ardelia and went West, she heard.” Toni Morrison (1931 – Present) is a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning American author editor and professor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison -Toni Morrison Beloved 1987

14. “I want to suggest that these concerns – autonomy, authority, newness and difference, absolute power – not only become the major themes and presumptions of American literature, but that each one is made possible by, shaped by, activated by a complex awareness and employment of a constituted Africanism.” Toni Morrison (1931 – Present) is a Nobel and Pulitzer Prize winning American author, editor and professor. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toni_Morrison -Toni Morrison Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination 1993