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Truly good writing has a rhythm to it. Discerning readers will be able to hear the music, the beat, the tempo, the sound of the words as they vibrate through our senses. Some call it the author’s voice. But call it whatever you want, if the writing doesn’t have it, it will have no heart and no soul, and to your inner ear, it will sound like the tick tick tick monotone of a metronome. It will be one note and boring. Find the music in your writing. Find your rhythm. Find your voice. That’s what will have readers turning pages to read one more chapter, just like Nigel Code, Author did.

Writing vibrato.

I have been listening to BBC Radio 3 most of today while beavering away with pencil on paper. For our cousins in the colonies, that is our classical music station here in Blighty.

They have just played something sung by Dame Felicity Lott, and what a beautiful voice she had, simply astonishing compared to other singers. Wh…

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