I'm starting to feel like my writing sounds a lot alike from one week to the next. I can't decide if I should enjoy my comfort zone or choose a new genre just to challenge myself.

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It's difficult to define writer's voice, but I'll give it a shot: It's a combination of things that make a writer recognizable to her readers, even if they're reading something without her name on it. Those "things" in combination could be sentence structure, use of particular tense or POV, vocabulary, use of figurative language, syntax, creative use of punctuation or grammar, common settings and types of characters, dialect...and myriad other tricks and tools from the writer's toolbox.dmbowman wrote:This might have an obvious answer but what is the difference between a writer's voice - meaning their style of writing - and just simply unoriginal writing?
I'm starting to feel like my writing sounds a lot alike from one week to the next. I can't decide if I should enjoy my comfort zone or choose a new genre just to challenge myself.