tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post3384088324073466229..comments2024-03-17T11:17:53.826+00:00Comments on Authors Electric: PAULINE FISK, CASTING ELECTRIC SPELLS: HOW TO FIND YOUR WRITER'S VOICEKatherine Robertshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17196712319655603442noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-45267343176264106362012-01-27T18:05:32.463+00:002012-01-27T18:05:32.463+00:00Pauline, this is a classic account of the writer&#...Pauline, this is a classic account of the writer's progress and it will resonate with many of us. It certainly resonated with me: I recognised so much of it. Great - and thank you!Dennis Hamleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15781139870037634374noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-18436606886254019202012-01-23T12:10:26.646+00:002012-01-23T12:10:26.646+00:00Fascinating, Pauline - this really resonated with ...Fascinating, Pauline - this really resonated with me. You're obviously a born storyteller; thank goodness you stuck at it! I can remember a girl called Jane Somerville at school years ago telling us a really scary story about someone who fell down a lift shaft. I've often wondered about her, and whether she wrote later on.Jennie Waltershttp://www.jenniewalters.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-10559365825840310512012-01-23T06:25:00.684+00:002012-01-23T06:25:00.684+00:00Except the writing itself, which was its own encou...Except the writing itself, which was its own encouragement, and other books of course [just realised how pathetic and self-pitying the above might sound!]Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-29342893513991049602012-01-23T06:22:56.881+00:002012-01-23T06:22:56.881+00:00Interesting comment about the handwriting. Mine c...Interesting comment about the handwriting. Mine changed completely at seventeen. In fact, it changed the day a significant person in my life died, though I never realized the change happened then until many years later, going back through my teenage diaries. <br /><br />Those diaries are full of my early writing attempts, poems, scraps of stories etc. Writing was a strange passion/obsession for a child who came from as unbookish a family as mine. Hardly surprising I didn't dare trust my own voice. In those early days there was very little to encourage me.Pauline Fiskhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11826696982301252524noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-70341194370634093822012-01-21T16:54:27.489+00:002012-01-21T16:54:27.489+00:00I enjoyed this - took me right back to the days wh...I enjoyed this - took me right back to the days when I tried to write a bit like Caroline Akrill (and failed miserably)!madwippitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02595748471651052552noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-25988245030185961962012-01-21T13:05:25.264+00:002012-01-21T13:05:25.264+00:00A quite moving post, Pauline, and a brave confessi...A quite moving post, Pauline, and a brave confession - thank you! I think many people will indentify with what you say.Susan Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07738737493756183909noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-37603726038894963932012-01-21T10:33:02.887+00:002012-01-21T10:33:02.887+00:00Interesting post, Pauline, and one I really identi...Interesting post, Pauline, and one I really identified with. I loved Midnight Blue, great to see that it's still captivating readers today.Karenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11716058361689251073noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2429560125838989988.post-53858529858859787862012-01-21T09:31:25.084+00:002012-01-21T09:31:25.084+00:00Lovely post, Pauline. It's funny, this circle ...Lovely post, Pauline. It's funny, this circle of style we move in, isn't it? <br />When I was a kid I used to like changing my handwriting. I'd spot an interesting stylistic flourish in someone else's and adopt it for a few days - certainly it made lessons more interesting. After a while I'd find it hard to keep the borrowed style, and anyway I'd found another I wanted more. <br />When I started to become aware that others' prose had these flourishes I wished I had, the whole cycle started again. It took me many years to realise that I already had a voice of my own - in the way I wrote when I was enjoying myself, unselfconsciously, in letters to friends. <br />Your post told a very familiar story - thanks!Roz Morris aka @Roz_Morris . Blog: Nail Your Novelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10088813423467048081noreply@blogger.com