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When Do You Capture Your Writing Voice?
Every writer has a unique writing voice. Are you familiar with yours?
Your writing style is the sum of your inner expressions and thoughts. How you write is how you speak without speaking at all. Get it?
Your readers will recognize your writing voice right away whenever you publish something new. It’s like horror bookworms who can tell the difference between Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and Peter Straub. Each writer has a distinct writing voice.
When do you capture your writing voice? Good news: you’ll get it soon. Bad news: it won’t be tomorrow.
Writing takes time. It can be months to years from the time you read this post when you finally have a handle on your writing voice. One key factor is your writing consistency. If you only write 300 words a week, expect it to take a long time until you can finally recognize your voice.
Your Writing Changes
As soon as you finally catch up with your writing voice, it changes. Don’t freak out; this is a good thing. It transforms as you go through life. Your writing has changed since you were six years old (for obvious reasons, haha).
Whenever I skim through my old journals from high school, I’ve noticed massive changes. You must get used to these stages. If you’ve started writing…
