The Voice

Good morning to you all. Welcome to The Voice!

My voice has been developing quite rapidly recently. I don't know why there are periods in our writing careers where we feel stuck in a rut and other periods where we can feel change flowing from our finger tips.

I guess we couldn't possible handle rapid changes constantly. It would throw off our equilibrium too much.

The evolution of the writer's voice is important. As I have said before if you don't learn more about your world and your feelings in that world your work just won't evolve. Fair enough.

So I guess I'm evolving.

I know myself well enough to realize that I have sudden bursts of insight before periods of relative calm. I try to let the new voice emerge and nurture it until I know it better. I have to sit next to the new voice, listen to it, talk with it and just be.

It is a good time for me to learn new information from other writers. It is a time where I am open to new input and points of view.

I like that.

Soon enough I will understand what this new voice wants me to say and I will buckle down and let it out in earnest. Stories, poems, queries, all sorts of creative projects will emerge from this knowing.

I always welcome that (even if it makes me feel a little vulnerable at first).

I have chosen to be kind with myself for the next couple of months and see where this new voice takes me. It is changing in rhythm to other awakenings in my life and so there are lots of elements coming together.

I don't think this world will ever fail to amaze me.

As Alexander Woolcott says, "There's no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day."