If I write from another voice how do I know it is not mine? We are all connected, we all have similar motives to our lives. Happiness, peace, love, loving families, health and joy are what the great majority of us strive for. This sounds like me writing this. How do I change my voice?
Mark Twain might say, “Man looks outside himself for what is always right there in front of his face when he looks in the mirror.”
Man looks for happiness and success but these actually come from within. If we measure happiness with what we have outside of ourselves, we are measuring with something that can be lost. The same goes for success, if we measure success by how much wealth we have accumulated, what becomes of us when it is lost? That sounds like me writing again.
I am finding it difficult to change my voice. Am I just so stuck inside my own head I cannot get someone else’s voice to hit this page? (I did think the Mark Twain thing was kinda cute and I appreciate his wisdom and how he could put it on the page)!
Writing from my dog Benz‘ perspective was not hard, I know him so well. He is right here beside me as I write and usually is. He probably even knows I’m struggling with this one. “Gee, she’s still typing and has erased more than ever. When will she ever be done so we can get on with this day?”
In order to write with a different voice, I would have to be inside that person’s head. I would love to spend a day writing for Wayne Dyer. It’s funny, not a day goes by that I don’t think of him at least once or twice. “Inspire, in spirit”. But can I write with his voice? I wish I could but that was his voice.
“Girl, just put those words out on the page. Why all this hemmin‘ and hawin’? The day is a wastin’ and you aint done yet. You got some rows to hoe out there so get a move on!”
Wow! Whose voice was that?
I guess writing from another’s voice is sort of like being in a play and speaking from another’s voice. If I suffered from multiple personality disorder, this may be an easier task. Just pick a personality and run with it.
Writing from a child’s perspective might be nice. Just bring up the inner child and put her on the page. “I don’t understand why you have to sit there and type, can’t we play a game instead?” That sort of sounds like my little dog Benz. Maybe my inner child is really a dog?
Maybe writing from a different voice just isn’t my style. Writing from a different voice requires me to think! I normally like to just download to the page whatever thoughts come to me from the prompt given in the daily assignment for My 500 Words. This may be something I have to work on a little more. Whatever it is, I am enjoying the writing and that is what really matters most.
