Monday Prompt
Week Three of the RDW is in motion!
Hello everyone!
Hope you had a restful and giving weekend. I think I’ve recovered from last week’s travel and from my own inability to have any discipline about “bedtime.”
In the workshop to date, we’ve covered the nuts and bolts of recipe writing and have shared a lot of recipes that inspire us to write our own. We dug into process from a pragmatic and creative perspective and there is a robust thread with tons of folks who are in some stage of development and looking either for a reader or a tester, and lots of folks offering to read and to test. I need you all to pick a partner and get those do-si-dos underway. (Any comp-sci or work org geniuses reading this? Turning this information into a chart would be amaaaaazing!)
This week, we’re turning to voice, which frankly is an annoyingly way of describing how you write. Tone, perspective, narrative style, language, sentence structure—the way you use words is one of the ways that your audience is going to connect with you (or not). Are you a Molly and use a lot of “abbrevs” or are you like Smitten Kitchen and want to contextualize your recipes at length?