{"id":510,"date":"2014-02-15T23:17:07","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T23:17:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/janetkayfetz.wordpress.com\/?p=480"},"modified":"2014-02-15T23:17:07","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T23:17:07","slug":"the-nuances-of-voice-and-tone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/riggscreative.com\/clients\/dev1\/the-nuances-of-voice-and-tone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Nuances of Voice and Tone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/janetkayfetz.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/luke2.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-472\" alt=\"Luke2\" src=\"http:\/\/janetkayfetz.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/luke2.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"407\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>We know that <a title=\"JLK blog\" href=\"http:\/\/janetkayfetz.wordpress.com\/2013\/08\/26\/voice-rhythm-and-reading-aloud\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">voice and tone<\/a> are very important in a written text. Every word we choose in every sentence we write will have a nuanced impact on our reader.<\/p>\n<p>No matter the genre or the subject matter, our readers will hear our story and judge our sincerity and intent.<\/p>\n<p>So what does this mean for the writer? It means that we must take care of voice and tone &#8212; and say what we really intend to say. Of course this care-full commitment to clarity means a lot of drafting, editing, and redrafting.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/10\/the-lost-art-of-the-condolence-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Here<\/a> is a touching expression of how hard one writer worked to find the right voice and tone when composing condolence letters. He writes:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cEach condolence letter ended up taking about three hours to write . . . The clich\u00e9 would be that the memories poured out, but they didn\u2019t. They required being tweezed out, one at a time. Clich\u00e9 would also state that the letters required no editing, but of course they did, and I found myself hunched over my computer in familiar fashion, shifting sentences around and removing stray words like I was on deadline, and my editor was breathing down my neck. The process of writing is always the same, whatever the subject, whomever the reader.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire New York Times text: <a href=\"http:\/\/opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com\/2014\/02\/10\/the-lost-art-of-the-condolence-letter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><i>The Lost Art of the Condolence Letter<\/i><\/a> By Saul Austerlitz.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We know that voice and tone are very important in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Nuances of Voice and Tone - wasatchfrontwasteandrecyclingdistrict.qrplanet.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/riggscreative.com\/clients\/dev1\/the-nuances-of-voice-and-tone\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Nuances of Voice and Tone - 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