I have so many different projects, I hear voices in my head - the characters talking all at once - and I have to write to make them stop.
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Writers have to have a knack for listening. I need to be able to hear what is being said to me by the voices I create.
I have a very busy head. I have inside voices that I have learned to contain.
I started writing more with my voice in mind.
I don't listen to music when I write. I need silence so I can hear the sound of the words.
I have to have music on when writing, or else the silence swallows me whole.
I do voicework all the time.
I always just want to do non-typical voices for some reason.
I'm not one of those authors who claims to hear voices in my head or 'let the characters speak through me,' whatever that might mean.
All of us have a 'voice' inside where all inspired thoughts come from. When I talk to children and aspiring writers, I always ask them to turn off the TV and listen to that voice inside them.
The only successful way to write, and the only one I have found, is to be the character. Give up on trying to control them. Writers always talk about hearing voices. That's what they mean.