It’s time to hear yourself speak. You might be thinking, but I’m a writer, I hear myself speak every day. I know the tambor of my voice. I feel its resonance. I know how it catches on a particularly beautiful line, or pauses as the image comes, cresting over the horizon of my mind like a sunrise. I know the way my tongue feels pressed to the roof of my mouth or the snake that whistles through my teeth as I silently mouth the lines.
And yet.
There’s a piece of you that’s scared. You’ve been taught to hate the sound of your voice. The high pitch that comes out sounding like a caricature of your soul. This deeply vulnerable part of you that you’ve kept safely hidden away. You watch it trying to crawl, trying to stand, trying to find footing but you’re so scared, scared of the fall.
Don’t be scared, my darling. Your writing will find it’s wings when you speak it into existence. It’s only when speaking it out loud that you’ll find the hiccups. When you hear your voice you will you find the turn of phrase that makes you pause. The dialogue that sticks like peanut butter. The characters that jump off the page demanding to be read and the ones who slink away without your noticing. The timing and the pacing. The holes.
Swallow the frog in your throat and read aloud your writing.
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