Continued from my January 9, 2020 post—I’ll start you
out on the first paragraph again to refresh your memory:
If only I’d read Delia Owens’ book before publishing
my book, Writing with Voice. But
unfortunately Where the Crawdads Sing
wasn’t published until 2018 so I didn’t have Delia’s wonderful examples of
“writing with voice” to give you, so I’ll take this opportunity to show, not
tell, on the Suite T blog.
“…Sunday Justice…(I love that name for a feline
character), sleeping on the windowsill, flowed to the floor and walked to
Kya.”—Dogs don’t flow. But by golly, cat’s do. Love this one! And Delia spent
enough time in Africa, observing big cats, to describe them to flowing
perfection.
