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Daily Archives: May 17, 2011

Narrative Voice as Mind-control: Thoughts on Manipulating Reader Perception

Posted on May 17, 2011 by Chris Gerwel

I’ve always considered voice one of the most important tools when writing alternate history, and over the past couple of weeks I’ve been thinking about how that tool really works (both within and outside the sub-genre). There are probably as … Continue reading →

Posted in fantasy, Genre Observations, Science Fiction, scifi, specfic, Writing | Tagged A Game of Thrones, alternate history, At the Queen's Command, Cherie Priest, Drednought, Emma Bull, Freedom and Necessity, George R.R. Martin, John Crowley, JRR Tolkien, Last and First Men, Lisa Yee, Little Big, Lolita, Lord of the Rings, Michael A. Stackpole, Millicent Min: Girl Genius, Nabokov, Olaf Stapledon, Otherland, Perspective, Point-of-View, POV, Sentence Construction, Steven Brust, Style, Tad Williams, The Phoenix Guards, Voice, Word Choice, writing | 3 Comments
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