![]() ![]() “Name’s Cal Sawyer and I got a story starts about thirteen years ago when I was twenty-seven. Hometown Legend is a novel I wrote from the perspective of a football coach: If you don’t know your protagonist well enough to do that yet, you have more work to do. You transfer your voice to your perspective character. How do you use your own writing voice in fiction? You at your most engaged is the voice we want on the page. What comes next will be in your most passionate voice. Imagine telling your best friend, “Have I got something to tell you…” What should your writing voice sound like? You have an idea for a novel or a nonfiction book-but how do you go about telling the story? When I arrived home at dawn, my mother took one look at me and said, “You’re in love.” It had soaked through my pants and down my legs. When I climbed down off that drum I realized I‘d been sitting in a quarter inch of motor oil the entire time. “She will soon enough,” I said, and for two hours I rhapsodized about a woman with whom I’d spent not much more time than that. What she looked like, sounded like, how she acted, how much I loved her, that he would be in the wedding… ![]() I hopped atop a 55-gallon oil drum and told him all about Dianna-and I mean everything. I sounded as interested in my story as in anything else I’d ever said.Īfter leaving my beloved, I drove nearly three hours in the wee hours, pulled into that gas station, and made my friend give me his full attention. ![]()
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