First Graft Podcast
Join writer Heidi James as she chats with a special guest to explore the creative process from scratch. From the first idea, the first marks on the blank page, wrong turns, successes, making a mess and completing the first draft. Listen to conversations about craft, the creative process, fear, procrastination and the hard graft behind the artwork we love.
First Graft Podcast
Chapter Thirteen -Incurring the Wrath of a Spiteful and Minor God
Hey,
How're you?
This chapter we talk about writing in a colloquial voice; it's importance in reflecting diverse characters, but not misrepresenting or diminishing them. How do we do it? And do it well?
I share a short extract of the first draft of The Sound Mirror, where I'm working on voice.
Also I chat about the following books:
Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh
The Panopticon by Jenni Fagan
The Colour Purple by Alice Walker
The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth
A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
and
Lucia by Alex Pheby
Murmur by Will Eaves
Let me know what you're working on, who you'd like hear on the podcast and what you think about writing in a character's idiom.
Next chapter I have a special guest!
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