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title: "Finding your voice"
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date: 2018-03-28
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#### Yours and only yours to claim…
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Photo by [Vince Fleming](https://unsplash.com/photos/afrNpD1wKZU?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText) on [Unsplash](https://unsplash.com/search/photos/yell?utm_source=unsplash&utm_medium=referral&utm_content=creditCopyText)I haven’t found my voice. I have, however, found *more of* it.
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I don’t often look back at my previous work. Partly because when I do all I see is flaws[1] but also because my views have changed so much. For a variety of reasons[4], my world has opened up in the past couple years.
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It’s more than that, though. My eyes haven’t just opened, so has my mouth. I’ve found a voice I never knew I had. Because now that I’ve found it I know that I’ve always had it. Buried, somewhere.
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I’m still finding it. My writing style is evolving with every piece I write. Most recently and most prominently is my mild-major obsession with footnotes. But also a half-conscious attempt to use less needlessly complex vocabulary.[5] After all, it is no good saying something if you can’t be understood…
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Medium has been a vital catalyst for that change, and I hope it continues to do so. And maybe one of these days I’ll get back to working on my novel[6]
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The point of my waxing lyrical about beginning to find my voice?
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An attempt to inspire you to do the same.
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Many of you here on Medium have already done so.
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But just as many, if not more, are just like me. In the process of finding their voice.[7]
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My voice which is mine and mine alone.
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Their voice that is theirs and theirs alone.
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Your voice which is yours alone.
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Speak out. Speak your mind. Nobody else will, because nobody else **can**.
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[1] This seems endemic to creative types[2] I wonder if there is a name for it…[3]
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[2] Hell, I still feel awkward labeling myself a ‘creative type’ and only do so because it seems technically correct. That and I’m increasingly discovering I’m not as much ‘logic type’ as previously thought.
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[3] ‘Being Human’, maybe…
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[4] A long and winding tale, filled with intrigue and deception. Glammed up and rammed into a sci-fi setting I could almost see myself writing it into a novel…I truly have been cursed to live in interesting times!
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[5] And just generally trying to take writing (and Life) just a little less bloody seriously!
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[6] That thing is perhaps the epitome of my changing voice — reading beginning to end is also reading chronologically across two years of my evolving style. Quite a ride…hence the heavy editing required!
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[7] Maybe we all are, always. Maybe those that look to me like they’ve found their voice have just honed the craft of finding it.
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