Hearing My Own Voice

Hearing my own voice, knowing that it is my voice, and including my voice in my writings, whether creative or academic, has been so powerful. I love how it sounds. When I write now, my voice speaks to me and makes it easier to focus on what I am writing. It’s now easier to accept who I am in my writing. I am no longer to trying to be “the” prolific writer with a forced voice. Amazingly, I am a prolific writer with my own voice. Not having the feelings to force my talent as a writer as transformed how I write, how I think, and how I feel about me. The adventure I am currently a part of, the University of Mississippi Writing Project Summer Institute 2009, has not only helped me as a writer but as an individual. I am now able to appreciate myself more. I am able to stop comparing what I am doing to what others are doing. Learning to embrace my own thought process, my writings, my voice in my writings, I have actually began to embrace myself as a whole. Funny how a writing institute has transformed my ability to write and transformed how I feel about myself.