Tone In Writing A Simple Guide For Authors Jerry Jenkins
Tone = Attitude Voice = Personality Tone (attitude) and voice (personality) create a writing style You may not be able to alter your personality but you can adjust your attitude This gives you ways to create writing that affects your audience's mood (Click here for examples of tone in a story) The mechanics of tone Tone of the passage is indicative of the message that the author wants to convey to the reader The same set of words change their meaning if you speak them in a different tone Broadly, the tones used are subjective or objective As you would guess, the objective tone is used when the author chooses to remain neutral and detached