Most of us have had this experience: you return to something you wrote a week ago and it almost sounds like someone else wrote part of it. The opening pages feel calm and measured, the middle grows ornate or chatty, and the ending sounds oddly distant. Nothing is technically wrong…but the presence behind the words has shifted.
That sensation is subtle, but readers feel it. The thread of trust loosens slightly, and it’s because the story changed, but rather because the storyteller did.
This week’s focus is voice drift: how to keep hold of the same narrative mind you started with.
