In a post on Writer’s Digest, Robert Lee Brewer says there’s only one way to discover your writing voice: Write.
“There is only one true way to develop your natural voice, and that is to practice writing and work at being as honest as possible to who you are and how you would say something,” Brewer says. “The tricky part for any writer is that your voice is your voice, so you can’t just copy what someone else is doing and quickly adopt a new writing tool.”
This also requires you to understand yourself and how and what you want to communicate to the world. One caveat: you might not like your voice when you encounter it. “This is very common among writers: Having a moment when they realize that their voice, the one everyone else loves, has been there all along, but it didn’t feel especially special to the writer themself,” Brewer says. “Or it seemed too weird or obnoxious or silly or whatever other adjective to share with the world.”
Bottom line: Write a lot and be true to yourself.
