Finding Your Voice
- Yeah, Shmoopers, it's not that easy to summarize a chapter about finding your own voice since, you know, you can't actually summarize something like voice. So we're gonna make it real simple:
- 1) Writers need to find their own voices.
- 2) Writers can try out writing in other people's styles as a way to find their own.
- 3) Finding your voice as a writer will probably involve finding out what truths you most care about and what way of talking about them is your own.
- 4) That's probably going to involve facing all your own personal angst and frustration, along with the things you find most beautiful and amazing in life.
- 5) You'll probably feel somehow like you're coming home when you finally do start to find your voice.
- Lamott says this a lot better than we do. Just go read the chapter again.