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March 15th, 2009 11:37 PM

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ComicsCareer.Com: Kupperberg on the writer's voice

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I Hear… Voices

Things I’ve Learned Along the Way
By Paul Kupperberg
© Paul Kupperberg

I was reading an interview with a writer whose work I like. He writes a lot of series characters, and he said he was writing new books about characters he hadn’t written in seven or eight years, or, in one case, a character he hadn’t written since the beginning of his career decades ago. He said he was happy to discover that when he sat down to write them after the long absence, he could still “find” them. That is, write the character the way they were written previously, in the same general style and voice, allowing, of course, for his growth as a writer and the characters chronological growth since their last appearances.

Style, is one thing. We can talk about that another time.

Today, we’re going to talk voice.

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