Writing Daily - Tips for Blogging - Finding Your Voice.

Posted by Sara

May 5, 2008

Since I got into blogging I have found it to be not much different than the normal writing I was doing daily already. That in mind I have found a lot of the skills, tips, and tricks I have learned as a writer has helped me a lot in blogging.

One important thing a writer and blogger needs is to find their voice. A writer’s voice isn’t what you say outloud, it is that internal voice while you write which forms the words and keeps things going. It is also that voice that helps take a collection of information and hopefully forms it into something that can be turned into a book, article, story, or something worth reading.

You can read all the books on writing, talk to all the well published authors, or dance naked in the street, but how you find your writer’s voice is different for everyone. Like blogging people can tell you how to do it, ways to make it a success, but it is still up to you to make it all happen.

Finding your writing voice is the easiest and hardest thing you will ever do in writing. Yes, I know that doesn’t make sense. You already have a writing voice, you just don’t have focused on the task of writing. You know you want to write, the voice is giving you things to write down but it hasn’t focused on writing, it hasn’t taken those things and turned them into something that makes sense.

Many authors and books will tell you lots of ways to find your voice. Writing daily, write before you go to bed, write first thing in the morning, and so forth. The whole point in all these tips and tricks is to write. Write daily, write in the morning, write in the evening, write while you are naked, write while you are eating, write while you are awake, and then when you are done write some more.

Finding your voice and getting it under control is one thing that takes experience and time. No help book in the world will help that go faster except give you tips and tricks to get you to write more.

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