Bought a $120 writing course on character voice. It was all fluff.

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That's rough, but most writing courses are like that. The thing about character voice is you can learn way more from just reading Cormac McCarthy or even YA books than from a course that charges $120 for buzzwords. Voice is specific word choices and rhythms, not some secret formula. Did the course give you actual examples of how to build a character's vocabulary or sentence length?

masondixon11d ago

Haha, yeah @blairwhite hit the nail on the head. A $120 course that just hands you buzzwords is like buying a fancy toaster that only burns bread. I'd rather just read a book like "The Road" where McCarthy's using like 20 words total but each one hits different. Or even a YA book where the narrator's using "literally" every other sentence. That's actual voice, not some made-up formula.