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We Need to Hear Your Voice · The Daily Writer

• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: Welcome to the Daily Rider Podcast, where we bring you tips and inspiration each day to help you build habits for writing success.
• 0:14
  SPEAKER_00: For more resources, including your free Daily Rider Starter Kit, visit DailyWriterLife.com.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: If you hang around the writing community long enough, you'll eventually hear people talk about the importance of finding your voice, but hardly anybody ever talks about what it means or how you go about doing it.
• 0:34
  SPEAKER_00: In the simplest terms, your voice is how you talk.
• 0:37
  SPEAKER_00: It's how you express yourself.
• 0:39
  SPEAKER_00: It's your style.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: And on the smallest scale, your voice even comes down to things like how you construct sentences and paragraphs and book chapters.
• 0:48
  SPEAKER_00: On a larger scale, your voice means the themes and the topics that you write about.
• 0:53
  SPEAKER_00: And just like your physical voice, your writing voice takes time to develop.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: It can also change over time.
• 0:59
  SPEAKER_00: Think of how different your voice as an adult sounds compared to what you sounded like as a three-year-old or even as a 13-year-old.
• 1:07
  SPEAKER_00: If you don't feel like you found your writing voice yet, just keep working at it.
• 1:12
  SPEAKER_00: As the author Henry Miller said, you have to write many words before you find your voice as a writer.
• 1:19
  SPEAKER_00: So the most important thing is not what your voice is, but it's simply that you use it.
• 1:25
  SPEAKER_00: So don't compare yourself to other people.
• 1:27
  SPEAKER_00: Be bold, be brave.
• 1:30
  SPEAKER_00: After all, there's only one of you, and we need to hear your voice.
• 1:35
  SPEAKER_00: Here's today's challenge.
• 1:36
  SPEAKER_00: Find one simple way to share your authentic voice with the world today, through a blog, social media, or even through a text or a phone call.
• 1:45
  SPEAKER_00: Don't be afraid to be yourself.
• 1:49
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• 1:54
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• 2:03
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• 2:10
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• 2:22
  SPEAKER_00: Thanks for listening, and I'll see you next time.