He gives the general an interior voice and a hard-knocks back-story (murdered mother; impoverished youth).
Ever since, when I see "your" where "you're" should be, a phantom arm of mine reaches for a red pencil to circle it; when I hear "primer" pronounced "primmer," or "off-ten" instead of "off-en," an interior voice corrects it, whether I want it to or not.
Similarly, each piece was directed in its form not by an urge to display but by a passionate interior voice -- a voice that could be stern and magnificent, dramatic or angry (at those moments when Mr. Berezovsky would snatch his hands from the keyboard), but was most often generous and humane.
Kids are often taught the same skills that anxious adults are, a variation on cognitive behavior therapy, designed to stop the endless recursive loop of rumination, replacing it with a smart, rational interior voice.
Von Ziegesar's technique of narration through (spiteful, grasping) interior voice is a perfect match for Malcolm, whose interest in the id knows no bounds.
Her interior voice is not especially female; it is, rather, genderless.
Everybody had an opinion on the way he should act and the changes he needed to make to his game, and the cacophony drowned out his interior voice.
Von Ziegesar uses the technique of narration through interior voice with all her major characters, but when she gets into the id-shaped mind of Blair Waldorf she crosses a kind of boundary.
When I sent it out, very intelligent people would say to me, 'I think it's actually like modern Molière.' And I'd say, O.K., even though this tiny interior voice was saying, 'Isn't it really kind of third-rate Jean Kerr?"' He shrugged.
I lay there listening; my mind wandered, narrated by my interior voice: how weird, my next thought ran, that that interior voice "sounds" like my speaking voice.
His smile was nearly childish, and totally sincere: Holy shit, you could imagine his interior voice saying, underneath his ecclesiastical hat, check me out!
