Voices - by Max Nussenbaum - Candy for Breakfast
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Whenever I immerse myself in someone else’s work, I find myself starting to sound like them.
Whenever I immerse myself in someone else’s work, I find that I start to sound like them. The voice in my head is fragile and easily influenced, and it doesn’t take too much for it to become someone else’s. This happens when I’m writing for public consumption, but also when I’m writing in my journal. When I look back on old entries, I can tell who I was reading a lot of at the time by the way I sound, the different tics and idiosyncrasies I take on. Some people think that to find your own voice you should fight this instinct. But I think you’re better off leaning into it. We worry about…
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