As cliched as it sounds, if you have an original voice and an original idea, then no matter what anybody says, you have to find a way to tell that story.
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I think original voices get noticed. But most importantly, I think you should have a story to tell.
Find the story you want to tell. If you don't want to write it, find somebody to write it.
Everybody's got a different way of telling a story - and has different stories to tell.
Not only is your story worth telling, but it can be told in words so painstakingly eloquent that it becomes a song.
Everyone has a story to tell. All you have to do is write it. But it's not that easy.
When anybody starts out with a memoir, you get the impulse to tell your own story with your own voice, and you get all that out in one fell swoop sometimes.
I write the story as it comes to me - YA is my natural voice, not a conscious choice.
There has always been this narrator in me - I loved ideas, and part of the great love affair I would have with ideas consisted of talking about them.
Depending on the story that you're telling, you can be relatable to everybody or nobody. I try and tell everybody's story.
The fact is that at different stages of your life, and under the influence of different inspirations, you write different things. The point is not necessarily to find your voice, which grinds out the same sort of thing again and again, but to find a vehicle for people who are far more important than the author: the characters.
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