Think about “voicey” writers like Julia Reed, Anthony Bourdain, or Rick Bragg: all of these people wrote about ordinary things. But the way they talked about them was extraordinary. A good writer can talk about standing in line at the post office, and it will still be good.
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Cultivating a timeless and enduring writing voice is inevitable when you write from your gut, enjoy the process, and say what you really mean.
This will transcend all the bullshit trends and fads, ensuring your content remains relevant and influential over time
This will transcend all the bullshit trends and fads, ensuring your content remains relevant and influential over time
Alex Mathers • 11 good reasons to develop a distinguishable writing voice
words are actions. They punch, tear, hurt, harm, soothe, amuse, educate, illuminate. They express ideas and feelings, and they make people feel better, and they move them to tears, and they enrage them, and they define them. We are all made of nouns, live by verbs, enlarge and entertain ourselves with adjectives and adverbs.