Find Your Voice?
Yesterday’s post about my desire to blog more often generated only 1 comment but several ‘offline’ discussions (if you count Twitter and Facebook as offline). The main term that kept repeating itself is ‘find your voice’. I’ve heard this term many times in relation to blogging and even to writing in general (before the blog era). But what does it really mean?
I’ve always enjoyed writing despite an education that didn’t emphasized it. I remember having a conversation with my brother while I was in high school complaining that I hated reading the books my English teachers would assign. “If only I could write the reports and essays without having to read the book,” I said. My brother, four years older and wiser than I, replied “I like the reading. It’s the writing I could do without.”
As mentioned yesterday my problem was always coming up with ideas of what to write about. Even when I did read the books I still struggled with this issue. But when I knew what I was going to write about the words flowed quite easily. I’m still like that today.
When I first started to blog in 2004 (predating this blog) I picked a subject I was passionate about and blogged exclusively about that. I started this blog about 7 months later as a place where I could blog about anything I felt like writing about. Through the years I’ve ranted on politicians (while trying to avoid politics), instructed on technical issues and reviewed music. This blog has been a place to vent, ply my coding skills and build my own personal knowledge base.
I still don’t know what ‘find your voice’ really means but these are the types of things you can expect to see here when you visit. And if you have any ideas for what I should write about feel free to let me know through the contact form.
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