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I Still Don’t Know What Kind of Writer’s Voice I Want to Have
And I’m alright with that… most of the time
You’re going to sound like your favorite writers sometimes, and that’s okay.
I’ve been writing for over 2 decades.
And yet here I am, having written multiple books worth of life events, and I still don’t know if I like my writer’s voice. It’s changed many times, and I don’t yet know what I want it to be.
When I started my first blog at 16-years-old, I sounded like my Mother, whose blog I read for inspiration. Around the same time, I began journaling and sounded a lot like my Father whose journals I would often read.
A year ago, when I started on Medium, I probably sounded a lot like Tom Kuegler, whose email course I took to help me get started.
Seriously Tom, thank you for helping me gain some momentum, and sorry if I sound like you sometimes.
Now, I usually find myself attempting to pattern my voice after either Shannon Ashley or Niklas Göke because they are the two authors that I read the most.
I hope you both know that means I’m not trying to be weird, I just look up to you a heck of a lot and hope to someday be as successful as you.
