Your Writing Voice


	Your Writing Voice

Unusual Suspect

9-23-2007 4:06 PM

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An article on finding your own voice as a writer.

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/9c7dbcfa-c2cc-482d-9154-b146e5a86b74/946B0A83-A7F8-4BCF-998F-676E6B344058/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Online-Writing/Your-Writing-Voice.47704" href="http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Online-Writing/Your-Writing-Voice.47704" style="font-size: 11px;">www.quazen.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Online-Writing/Your-Writing-Voice.47704">Writing can be a pretty personal thing. Each writer has, or should develop, a style of their own. But style isn't something that you just pick from a set of rules. It evolves, and that evolution is your own journey of self-discovery.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.quazen.com/Arts/Online-Writing/Your-Writing-Voice.47704"> The unconscious influence of other <A href="#" class="kLink"  id="KonaLink0"><FONT color="#2a6c8f"><SPAN class="kLink">writers</SPAN></FONT></A> certainly comes into it if you read a lot, as you should. Deliberately copying someone else's style is okay when you're just starting out, but another writer's style will never fit you as well as the one you discover in the process of living and getting your thoughts down on paper. If you're going to succeed, imitation is not the sincerest form of flattery; it's a learning device. It's the detachable wheels on your first bicycle, and you have to take them off eventually.</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/946B0A83-A7F8-4BCF-998F-676E6B344058/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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