For every writer, finding his or her own voice is very essential. It is the identity, the personality, the very essence of a writer. And in the crowded writing market, clients are constantly looking for writers with their own voices. They will usually ignore all those voiceless writers that write stale and boring articles. What they are looking for is a fresh voice that would definitely get the readers' attention.
Simply put, your voice is your style, your tone, the fashion of writing you feel most comfortable with. Editors may or may not decide to buy your book because of it. Readers will either love or hate you for it.
A new writer should strive to find his or her own voice to be come a very. Once a writer finds his or her own voice it would already be easy to get published and earn money. What is a voce really? Well nobody can really define what a voice is. But once you will know once you found it.
Finding your voice can be a very long and complicated process. Most famous writers took years to find their voices. There are even workshops out there that promise to help you find your voice. But it is only you who could look for your voice.
What a new writer must do is to continue writing until they find their voice. And one day, you'll critique, your editor or your friend, while reading your piece will just say, ?Hey you've found your voice.?
Below are a few tips on how a writer can find his or her voice.
Here are some tips to add your own voice to your writing.
1.Feel what you write. Or as more poetic writers would put it, write from the heart. Writers must be sensitive and must be constantly in touch with their feelings. They must their feelings, be it excitement, passion or anger to their advantage. In fact when you are feeling intense feelings that is usually the best time to find your voice. When you are feeling intense feeling, immediately grab a pencil or open your word processor and write away.
2. Be original. The mistakes of new writers is too simply copy what's been done by their idols or established writers in the business. Often, this is a result of not wanting to fail. But this is could also be the result of plain laziness of the writer. Try to write something new and original every time you write. If you write the same things over and over again, you will soon find out that even you will get tired of it. And if you get tired, just imagine what your clients and readers feel.
3.One good advice to writers is that they should write the same way as they speak. One of the best ways to do this is to listen to yourself talk by recording you voice. Transcribe the tape then compare it to your writing.
4.Edit then edit again. It is sometimes necessary to cut the pieces you have written in order to extract its essence of it. If you constantly distill your writing then what would come out of it is something that is distinctly yours.
5.Listen to your inner critic but not too much. Your inner critic can give beneficial advices but it can also be a hindrance to finding your real voice. So listen to him but don't let him interfere with your writing.
6.Open up. You should learn how to open when you are writing. Reveal yourself, your drams, hopes, fears, desires, etc. When the feeling of embarrassment has set in, then maybe its' your voce showing up.
7.Be very concrete. Being abstract is a mistake every new writer makes. You must remember to be as concrete as possible when writing. When you are describing an animal tell exactly what animal it is.
8.Don't be afraid to break the rules. Of course every writer knew the importance of good grammar and following its rules. But don't be afraid to brake the rules of writing once in a while. Use slang and contractions and begin sentences with and and but. But still stick to good grammar and always check your spelling, especially with proper nouns.
9.Write, write, write. This is probably the best advice a writer can get because it is in constant writing that your voice will emerge.
Now that you know how to find your voice, discovery will be so much easier. So what are you waiting for?
I wrote a bit last week about the honor I had to meet opera tenor great Vahan Mirakian last year in Mexico during his deportation battle to re-enter the U.S. I am very pleased to say that he has returned and is doing his good works through his nonprofit foundation, the Vahan Mirakian Foundation. I encourage everyone to visit the site and see some of the videos, hear some snippets of this man's incredible voice at www.vahanmirakian.com.
Keep in mind, this is coming from a simple Mississippi writer who grew up on Chet Atkins and Merle Haggard. Though I still consider them greats in their genre, admittedly it took me a little while to understand and finally appreciate this amazing art known as opera (Vahan can do it all and as you will see in the short video, recently did a special tango concert which was a sellout in Los Angeles).
This might give you some insight before visiting so to know what to expect:
Vahan Mirakian, born in Armenia, belongs to the excelling tenor singers of our period. His reputation covers a lot of countries where he performs diverse opera parts and a broad repertory of songs and folk-songs.
Already as a pupil the young tenor sang in concerts of amateurs. As he also was a member of the Armenian junior basketball-team, he had to choose: He chose the music instead of sports and entered the Jerewan conservatory where Tamara Shakhnazarian became his first teacher. In his third year of studies he gave his debut at the Spendiarow opera house in Yerevan, Armenia. Having finished his studies he was invited to enter the ensemble of the opera house and sang in his first season, the parts of Lensky in "Eugen Onegin", the Duke in "Rigoletto" and Alfredo in "La Traviata". Other figures he performed are "Lucia di Lammermoor", "La Boheme", "Carmen" and "Tosca".
Three years working with Maestro Barra in Milano was very successful. The young singer had now the possibility to learn the fine nuances of Italian belcanto by studying parts like Cavaradossi ("Tosca") and Rodolfo ("La Boheme") at the Teatro Alla Scala. At the same time Mirakian studied a huge repertory of songs which he performed for the first time in Milano and in the hall "G. Verdi" in Parma. Immediately after his studies Mrakian got a contract with the Bolschoi-Theater in Moscow, Russia where he performed the grand parts of the lyric Russian and the Italian repertory until his immigration in 1981.
Vahan Mirakian, during his long artistic like, has fascinated listeners all over the world. Not only with his perfect cantilena and his fine phrasing and nuances of his grand voice, but also with his vast reparatory reaching from songs by Schubert and Schumann over the romances by Tshaikovsky and Rachmaninov until the Russian and Armenian folk-songs. He has sung in each big city in Russia, the United States, Canada, Sweden, England, Netherlands, Belgium, France, Spain, Germany, Austria, Poland, Yugoslavia, Czechia, Hungary, Japan, South Africa, Near East and also became a welcomed guest in different famous opera houses around the world. Mirakian now lives in Los Angeles, CA in the United States where he applies to the education of young singers in single lessons, workshops and masterclasses. Take advantage of this opportunity if you are in the Los Angeles area to take lessons with the a true maestro.
The mission of Vahan's foundation is to provide help for the development and the growth of our culture; to help young talents to get the necessary training and education by awarding scholarships and other forms of financial aid; provide the right training to help them gain recognition in all kinds of art forms.
His mission statement: One Dollar for the sake of the Arts!
The Foundation statement adds, "We hope that this foundation will help us bring together all those wonderful individuals who have the love, passion and appreciation for the arts. The foundation has also established a vocal arts and classical music academy where students will have a chance to work and get personal attention and training from the Master of Bel Canto Maestro Vahan Mirakian himself."
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