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Jack Grapes

 I've been watching some interviews with a writer/actor named Jack Grapes. The interviews are on a YouTube channel called Film Courage, but I also just found that he has a site here https://jackgrapes.com/.

He is very interesting to listen to and seems like an excellent teacher. He talks a lot about what he calls your deep voice. Basically, what I think it means is writing with your own voice, not trying to make it sound overly embellished, not using a lot of big words or over doing your descriptions. According to him, this style can be used, but it should be used sparingly throughout the writing. Switching into this style and back to your deep voice will make the writing interesting to the reader.

I continuously learn new things. I will try to post some examples of my writing soon using this newly learned technique.

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