When I write, I'm constantly putting myself in the position of someone else as I write using myriad voices; I think that's a life skill all people should learn.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I don't feel that I have to control every aspect of things that I appear in. You learn a lot performing someone else's writing.
I put a lot of myself into my characters when I write.
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.
It's usually easier for me to begin writing in a character's voice if that person is different from me in some significant way.
When I write, I can become this ecstatic, crazy fellow, hearing the voices and just loosening up and letting them grow.
I guess what I'm trying to say is that writing is mysterious; you don't ever truly know where it is coming from, so don't edit yourself line by line. Don't get in your own way. Whatever is truly there at the core, that is your voice.
I started writing more with my voice in mind.
I have always been able to write on the spot. It is a talent that I guess comes naturally.
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.
Your writing voice is the deepest possible reflection of who you are. The job of your voice is not to seduce or flatter or make well-shaped sentences. In your voice, your readers should be able to hear the contents of your mind, your heart, your soul.