Pat Garcia shares the creative heart of writing in this excellent article. How well do you know YOUR voice?
Welcome to THE CONTRIBUTOR’S CORNER! This month’s post is by contributing RWISAAuthor, PAT GARCIA.
“HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR VOICE?”
Writing, whether fiction or non-fiction, is more complicated than we think. We don’t just write a book like we speak in our regular day-to-day conversations with friends. The voices in our souls seek expression, but how to let this flow in our writing is the big question. How in tune we are with ourselves is crucial to writing any kind of story.
Becoming familiar with our writing voice is getting to know what is below the surface in our subconscious mind. By the time we become mature adults, we have buried deeply so much of who we are, that it sometimes hinders us from writing from the heart.
I am not talking about researching what we write. Whenever you want to grab a reader and pull them into…
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Thank you so much, Patty! This has truly brightened my day. I have had Mac problems and sometimes that is trying. Seeing that you reblogged the article from THE PIPELINE just made me happy. Thank you.
Have a great weekend.
Shalom aleichem
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I love this article, Pat! Thank you so much for writing it. Reblogging, in order to share it, is a pleasure. I hope it draws more readers to THE PIPELINE. It’s a great magazine!
Blessings!
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This was such a great post! Thanks for sharing it, Patty! 🙂
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Thanks for visiting, Yvette! Pat has given us some great advice here. I see our ‘voice’ as where our stories emerge from and how we express them. Given the same topic, each writer will write it differently because their voice is uniquely theirs.
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