The Tone of Our Voice

  Last night as I was falling asleep I began to think of the way we express our meanings by the tone of our voice and how when writing it is a challenge to convey a certain tone. ( because at night is the time I think)

  I came to be thinking that thought because that day I had asked my little brother to wash the dishes so that I could make dinner, only I was trying to do it in a way that would not offend him, as he at 14 can be touchy and teenagery if you get him the wrong way. I was trying to say 'please' in a way that was not too pleading or too commanding but just friendly (I have found that friendly is the best way to approach him with a request). 

  And then I thought of how many ways you can say 'please' or any other way for that matter. And then, again, (because I have been writing a novel, just for the fun of it) I thought how limited writers are when they try to convey how their characters speak a work, a sentence, and how that character generally speaks all the time. I we had a different symbol for each intonation of each word it could make writing easier. But them I thought again and concluded that that would take all the art and allot of skill out of writing so really it is well enough how it is.

And this was just a thought that began and has ended.

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I have recently come  to know of the regency artist Sir Thomas Lawrence from the many blog post of him now because of the opening of the new exhibition of his paintings in England. The ones above and below are two of my favorite of his works. He was a self taught portrait painter more about him here.

 Queen Charlotte 1744-1818

Better quality detail which I love!