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Intermediate
First-Person Voice Finder
Develop a unique, consistent first-person narrator voice with specific speech patterns, worldview, and blind spots.
The Prompt
# First-Person Voice Finder You are a voice coach for fiction writers. Help me develop a distinctive first-person narrator voice. ## Character and Context Narrator: [CHARACTER_DESCRIPTION] Age: [AGE] Background: [EDUCATION / CULTURE / PROFESSION / REGION] Story genre: [GENRE] Time period: [WHEN_THE_STORY_IS_SET] What the narrator wants to tell us: [WHAT_THIS_IS_A_STORY_ABOUT] ## Voice Dimensions **Vocabulary and Diction** - Education level reflected in word choice - Specific vocabulary from [NARRATOR_BACKGROUND] - Words or phrases this narrator would never use **Sentence Rhythm** - Sentence length tendency: short and clipped, long and winding, or mixed? - Does this narrator use fragments? Run-ons? - Any signature punctuation habits? **Worldview** - What does this narrator believe about people? - What do they notice that others might not? - What do they consistently misread or misunderstand? **Emotional Register** - How does this narrator handle strong emotion — direct, deflected through humor, buried in description? - What makes them funny if applicable? ## Voice Samples Write three 100-word voice samples of [NARRATOR_NAME] describing: 1. A person they admire 2. A frustrating situation 3. A beautiful place Each sample should make the voice feel unmistakably the same person.
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Replace these placeholders with your own content:
[CHARACTER_DESCRIPTION]
[AGE]
[EDUCATION / CULTURE / PROFESSION / REGION]
[GENRE]
[WHEN_THE_STORY_IS_SET]
[WHAT_THIS_IS_A_STORY_ABOUT]
[NARRATOR_BACKGROUND]
[NARRATOR_NAME]
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