I’ve never understood ‘voice’ in writing. 'Find your voice’ the advice is.
Never has made sense.
Voice plus ear equals sound.
All the squiggles of cursive penmanship or black and white letters marching
across a page are silent. Only the scratch of a pen
or a tapping of keys, but nothing resembling voice.
So I keep poking around in other
author’s novels and stories trying to hear a
voice from the pages and, in my own writing, for
a voice underneath all the scratching and tapping.
I suspect I’d be terrified if even one voice was
spoken from a book lying silently by my bed. Or
my bookshelves quaked with the thousands of
voices and languages within all the covers.
The most frightening part?
I’d never buy another book or even
go to the library! My life of travels and
colour would become still and silent.
“Thoughts need words. Words need a voice.”
~ Sharon M. Draper, educator
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