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\u201cFind your voice\u201d\u2014the most natural thing a writer should do, right? Somewhere inside me is my voice! Yet, the search tends to proceed like a grail quest, only trickier, because \u2018voice\u2019 pops up everywhere on the page, appearing now in the style, now in the sound, now in the stance, now in the details. So, is it the bedrock DNA of great writing, or a will-o-the-wisp? Should we follow the fiction writer Sylvia Watanabe\u2019s advice, \u201cDon\u2019t try to find your voice; write a story\u201d? In this Eleventh Hour session we\u2019ll try to un-confuse an elusive all-inclusive concept, and we\u2019ll start by looking at what \u2018voice\u2019 means to poets and what it does and doesn\u2019t mean to fiction writers. Bring paper, we\u2019ll be experimenting with a few exercises!