Writers Are A Chorus, Not A Brand: Why Having Multiple Writing Personalities Is A Good Thing
I don’t have a voice, I have a cacophony — and that’s just the way it ought to be.
Human beings are complex and, based on our media portrayals, writers are even more complex than most.
Oh, yes, you know how it goes. We brood, we wax poetic, we turn our complexes into novels and our yearnings into…business copy? Well, it is the modern age, after all.
For all our complexity, I find it strange that we’re so often told to simplify. To narrow down, to niche — to take all of our glorious, deafening, out-of-tune notes and streamline them into something cohesive. A brand, perhaps, or a style.
To that, I say: NONSENSE.
If you’ve followed me at all, by now you must know that I, in all my glory, am a complete and utter disaster. Branding gurus see me coming and sh** their pants. A voice? As in one single, tremulous, paltry writing voice? Hilarious!
I don’t limit myself, and neither should you. You don’t need to “find your voice” as a writer: you need to thoroughly enjoy every single one of the voices that’s already clamoring away inside of you.
