#wednesdaywisdom – say it with yo’ chest! -Kevin Hart
I often hear writers ask… “Why would anyone want to read my
story?” to which I reply, “Your Voice Matters!”
Students often feel that they have nothing to say about
topics when they first begin my course. I
always tell them, “Your voice matters.
What you have to say is important.”
To be a writer, you have to realize that YOUR VOICE MATTERS. When you have the gift of writing or the
desire to write, you have to stand strong in the fact that what you have to say
is important. Someone needs to hear what
you have to say. So, you need to say it,
or rather write it.
At times, your inner critic and internal anguish will tell
you that your story is trash. It will
tell you, no one wants to read what you are writing. It will tell you that you have nothing to say. But all of these are not true. When you have a driving urge to write your
story, God gave it to you to share it with someone. Listen to that small voice that is encouraging
you to move forward. There is a reason
that you feel the longing to write.
Your experience may help someone with something they are
going through.
Your knowledge can help someone understand something that
they have not been able to understand from anyone else.
Your point of view may change someone’s mind.
What you have to say is important. And if it only helps one person, that is
okay. That one person needed to hear it.
As I always tell my students, “I may not change the world,
but I will change at least one of you. And if I do that, I have done my job.”
Remember what Maya Angelou said, “There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.”
Realizing that your
voice matters is part of developing
your writing style.