ABSTRACT
It is useful, when thinking about the notion of 'writing voice', to distinguish between the reader's and the writer's perspective. From the writer's perspective the term 'voice' will have different connotations. On the one hand, a writer may struggle to find the right narrative 'voice' for a particular character or for a first person narrator of a novel or story. On the other in a more general sense, she has 'found her voice', which makes her relationship with her writing more fluid and comfortable. Phil, who was accustomed to writing non-fiction, regarded his fiction writing as 'well-written, but uninteresting'. Writing autobiographically led to a breakthrough, in which he opened up to an experience he was trying to write about, so that instead of writing in his former rather impersonal style he was now inside the writing. The writing was visually strong but the experimental approach used, mingling past and present in a self-consciously filmic style, was only partly successful.
