Writing in Your Personal Voice

ABOUT THE WEBINAR We break down voice into two steps. First, you will learn how to draw from the essence of your story to organically derive surprises and reversals that create an inner consistency and unity in tone and style. When your script is “faithful to itself” and the foundational pillars of concept, theme, character, and location, it will have a unified voice. This won’t necessarily lead to your personal voice or deep personal expression but it will create a unique story. The more romantic notion of your personal voice is when you can strip falsity and cliché from your storytelling so that you can reveal world, characters, story, or yourself with nuanced complexity and humanity. This authenticity impacts an audience in a surprising meaningful way. A script’s “fidelity to itself” -- its ability to spin clever and integrated surprises from its setup -- isn’t sufficient to bend the “voice of the script” toward your personal voice. It’s not just where you end, but where you begin.