Name That Ruby

A few weeks back, Liz Talley and Kim Law did a post in which they invited us to guess which paragraphs had been written by each of them. It was a fascinating exercise in the power of voice. Your voice as a writer makes you distinctive and keeps readers coming back for more. For many of us, it’s not even conscious – just the way we put words onto paper, a natural extension of how we see the world. Ask three writers to write the same scene and you will get three very different voices.

Today we’r...