I have been away from this site for a long time and today when I was reading one of my e-mails about finding your voice I came to think about this site.
I have long been thinking about how I write and how it is perceived by the people that read my stuff if there is anybody bothering to do so.
“Finding your voice” is a term that was used in the e-mail. Following this type of thinking is what many people should do when they write for the Internet and other places also for matter. The Power Of Voice is particularly a term that I like. There was a program on TV, a reenactment of the speech that President Lincoln had many years ago on the field of Gettysburg. We all know it as the Gettysburg Address.
In this reenactment, when he writes the speech on the train while on the way to Gettysburg, he reads the speech out loud to his trusted servant “George” and asks for his opinion. George is hesitant and finally answers the he likes it, he really likes it. We all know what impact the speech has had on our lives; imagine what the people that was actually there must have been thinking. I guess we can say that Lincoln had found his voice, wouldn’t you say? There have been many people and many famous speeches since but I don’t think anybody comes even close to Lincolns.
The e-mail I received today kind of made me thinking about my own voice… What is in store for me – will my voice be heard? As I write a bit here and there and post it on the Internet, am I really using my own voice? What purpose is it to the stuff that I write?
As in the e-mail, some people that write for the Internet simply say that the stuff is good enough for first page on big G, so it must be ok. I like to think the same for my own ego but honestly I think that I could do and use some improvements here and there. Learning and having reached this far is just the beginning. I hope I can continue to learn and become much better at it. I know it takes time and practice just like anything else. If you want to succeed, you got to work at it.
Just take the fact that the e-mail I received today made me thinking a bit differently.
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Do you have a story or something that impacted you in a certain way? Maybe it made you think carefully about something that you wouldn’t have been otherwise.
Paul Myers is well known in some Internet circles and has his own newsletter called TalkBiz. You can read his work here: http://www.talkbiznews.com