Any way you want it, that’s the way to write it. #SOCSunday
Five minutes, free association on Sunday.
Linking up with Jana @jana’sthinkingplace. Her prompt this Sunday: Journey.
GO.
Don’t Stop Believin’
Lovin’, Touchin’ Squeezin’ each other . . . or another?
It’s funny. So much of today’s music (popular music) sounds the same to me.
Music executives know what is hot. What look, what sound and they find acts that fit the mold.
Back when I was younger groups had their own sound.
You could tell an Aerosmith song, from a REO song, from a Journey song.
Why do we as writers or as bloggers try to sound like The Bloggess or Scary Mommy or Sue Monk Kidd or Joshilyn Jackson?
All are wonderful. All have they own unique voice.
We need to search for ours and be true to the music we hear inside our heads.
STOP.
Do you think yourself true to your voice?
Interesting question… I feel like I’m true to my voice. I think it’s a combination of a lot of things I’ve read and seen and heard over the years, but I think it’s mine.
I love that you have album covers ringing your kitchen. They’re a lost art as is the music we grew up with. You are absolutely right that you could just hear a few bars and know what group it was because if their uniqueness. Your thoughts here are spot on. We need to be who we are in our writing and expressions if creativity. There’s room for everyone!
I think you are Jana — that’s why it will be fun to meet. I have a strong identity associated with you because of your writing.
That’s actually it Gina. I was talking with a friend who is a extremely talented photographer and writer. And we came to the same conclusion. When you are true to yourself and your voice — all need for comparisons and competition recede. There is indeed room for everyone.
It’s interesting, I took a writing mini-class this year on “finding your voice,” and I realized in that class that I almost always question or am very critical of my own voice. Hence, it took me five minutes to write this comment… So I suppose the answer to your question is: I’m working on it. Great post, Jamie!
Interesting question – something, I am beginning to realize, I have struggled with for my entire life.
So very, very often – for as long as I can remember – I have been a reactor, not an actor. My self / persona , my very likes and dislikes, were carefully crafted to be what I was ‘supposed to be’ for my mother, or my husband, or … society, I guess.
To this day, it is difficult for me to answer if asked “What do you / would you like?” I’m not certain I have a voice. Or, if I do, it is very quiet.