Gaining full "voice" in your writing and knowing how to use it, like a singer, is absolutely essential. This book was born in writing classes where, with early encouragement, writers soon found a "voice." The book took form as I discovered how that was happening. I was determined to help bring these writers to full voice. First, they had to find a personally invested subject. So I asked them to keep a journal/notebook of their own, and to write down whatever came to mind with feeling, just that: memories of recent or past happenings, random thoughts-and images of any sort, including...