![]() You can also use volume to convey the tone of the scene. You can use this to convey character personality-a very confident character might speak loudly while a nervous and shy one speaks quietly. Volume is literally how loudly or quietly someone speaks. Or you can flip those expectations and really mess everyone up. Someone who is stoic and calm can have a low voice versus someone who’s excited and energetic who has a high voice. You can also use pitch to convey personality. ![]() You can expect that a small child is going to have a higher pitch than a grown man, for example. This is a great one used to help describe your character. This refers to the highness or lowness of a voice. Even without hearing it, you get a sense of what someone with a voice like spun sugar sounds like. When you put it like that, see how you can make use of timbre to convey how a character sounds. Their voice reminded me of velvet-soft petals. I know that sounds a little out there, but think about descriptions you’ve heard where this might work. Timbre also refers to the specific texture or color of a voice. You can use timbre for your characters as well. This is a word that is often used to refer to musical instruments and the sound a particular instrument makes. You can imagine how making use of tone can be used to convey not only the mood of your character, but the story itself. Or their tone might be somber or sarcastic. Someone might speak in a shocked or enthusiastic tone. This refers to the “quality” of someone’s voice. As in, what is their literal voice? This is an important distinction for the purposes of this discussion. No, what we’re talking about is literally how a character speaks. And you can read more about developing and finding your author voice in this article. Writing voice is about how you as an author express yourself on the page. Just to be clear, we aren’t talking about your writing voice, which is a term you’ve likely heard before. ![]() First, let's talk about what the components of voice are.
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