For some people, lively writing comes as easily as speaking. Most of us, however, have to put a little more effort into giving our content personality.
In the writing world, that ever-important quality is called “voice.”
Why is it so hard to show your true colors when putting pen to paper? For many of us, this struggle probably began in school when we were taught to purge our writing of any evidence of a narrator. We’d write awkward sentences like, “The author contends that Holden Caulfield knew all along where the ducks went in winter” because it was against all those stuffy rules of English to actually acknowledge that you were the one writing the paper.
Though our school days are long gone, this tendency is so ingrained that it’s sometimes hard to shake off.
5 Easy Ways to Add Voice to Your Content
