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Your Best Writing Voice Is Already Inside You — Here’s How to Let it Out
3 simple ways to do it right now.
Every comprehensive course on writing starts with a plan to find your writing voice.
That’s bad advice, especially if nothing on the list of choices fits.
You already have a voice. Your best friends know it. Your family has heard it. And deep inside, it’s always been right there with you.
A better question to ask is, “How do I set my voice free and share my best insights with the world?”
Go with the flow.
The other night I was in my bedroom listening to music. I was jamming out to the tunes I grew up with. Nothing else mattered at that moment.
My daughter swung the door open and implored, “Did you hear that?”
“Hear what?” I queried.
“That noise outside. It was so loud that the neighbors came out of their house to see if we were okay.”
“I didn’t hear a thing,” I shrugged. But I went outside to see if a tree had fallen onto the house or two cars had collided on the highway out front.
I waved my flashlight and saw… nothing.
I was in the flow. I was so committed to…
