"I think I have a sense of how things need to sound, how to pull an audience in with tone, timing, and pacing. That affects a lot of my writing, too, being hyper aware of how an audience might read something. I want what’s happening on the page to mimic what my body would do on stage. A lot of that came out in the audiobook. I think I would have struggled to record the audiobook without having stage experience because it’s a lot of work to maintain that kind of performance voice."
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On how she aimed to preserve the spoken word feel for her book The Poet X in “Debut Author Elizabeth Acevedo on 'The Poet X'” in Publishers Weekly (2018 Mar 6)
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