How To Find Your Inner Voice
Inner Voice?
This is a short hub for tonight as I am tired and I have to be at work at 5AM.... ugh. Sounds terrible right? I just wanted to express a feeling I've been having since reading the book, The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo. For a long time now, since I've begun writing. I've been trying so hard to find my inner voice, the voice that every reader hears when reading a great novel. I'm really not sure how to find it or if I have attained it already. It's so hard as the writer to understand whatever you have this gift or not. My hope is that I am making good strides to gaining that skill and having a voice that my reader hears when reading my prose. I kinda wanted to share this idea of finding once's Inner Voice and understanding the importance of having it for your reader. This last book is so well written and so gracefully crafted, that I myself have grown a bit intimated.
Have you ever felt this way? How do you overcome it?
Well my point is that I hope to one day have the skill and perseverance to create that Inner Voice for my readers. What will I try to tell them, what lessons will I convey? As a writer, I want to ask other writers, how have you crafted that voice that readers hear and know well? How have you found the Inner Voice? I'd love to hear from you guys and get an idea of how you know when you've found that quality in your writing. As I grow older and more experienced, I really want to understand this aspect of writing. I'm hoping that I'm in a place for growth.
That's it for tonight, I'm tired, and the bed is calling my name. If you have any comments, leave them!! :)
Fighting The Insecurities
As a writer it's so hard to fight those insecurities. Is my writing good enough? Will I ever be as good as Stephen King or J.K. Rowling Rowling or R.A. Salvatore? It's So hard to fight the urge to belittle your own work when you read a well crafted story. It's so hard to really understand exactly what your writing means to someone. Sure you can get friends and family to read, but what percentage of those readers can tell you what your work means and what it's worth? 10%? 15%? The hardest thing about writing is fighting insecurities and understand your Inner Voice as writer. Do I sound articulate? Do I sound cocky? Is my writing boring? Oh the thoughts keep flooding in and it's so difficult to block them out. I wish I could advise other writers how to block those thoughts out, but I too have the same issue. But, my main thing is staying positive and relaxing. Maybe my writing is better than I thought? Maybe I've been doing it right all along? It's uncertainty. And I think it's always going to be uncertain. Do great writers know how great their work is or do they all feel the same way. "It's crap. No one will like it."
Well my point is that I hope to one day have the skill and perseverance to create that Inner Voice for my readers. What will I try to tell them, what lessons will I convey? As a writer, I want to ask other writers, how have you crafted that voice that readers hear and know well? How have you found the Inner Voice? I'd love to hear from you guys and get an idea of how you know when you've found that quality in your writing. As I grow older and more experienced, I really want to understand this aspect of writing. I'm hoping that I'm in a place for growth.
That's it for tonight, I'm tired, and the bed is calling my name. If you have any comments, leave them!! :)
