With your voice try to just be yourself. Pay attention to how you write and notice things that you may want to change, but overall be true to who you are.

The more you keep writing, the more your voice will come out.

Thank you very much!

I’d say my own writing style is somewhat informal and conversational and my voice would change if I suddenly started writing in a more formal way. But my voice would change too if I started advocating quck fixes when it comes to seo or if I started telling people that it was more important to make your site flashy instead of focusing on content.

You can pick up someone’s style reading one or two posts, but I think to know someone’s voice you need to read more than a few posts. Your voice is part what you stand for and believe in. It incorporates the values you hold. It carries your philosophy with it.

Style is definitely part of it. A lot of that mental sound you might hear while reading is coming from the style of the writing, but even with the same style of writing wouldn’t you hear something different if the writer were extremely conservative in their poltics than you would if they were extremely liberal.

Think of it when you’re reading a novel. The writing style should be the same throughout since it’s the same author, but each character has their own voice. As you get to know them (and if the author’s done a good job) you could tell who was speaking even if they aren’t specifically introduced by the narrator. They’ll choose different words when they speak and they’ll have different attitudes about a subject.

It’s part style, but it’s definitely more than writing style alone.

Anyway, I suppose it takes a lot of writing to find one’s writing style. In this case, the more, the merrier. Though it may be tempting to steer one’s style in favor of customers (and it may seem a natural thing to do), I’d suppose it may be worth sticking to one’s own style, anyway. After all, you’ll be writing for a while and any style can find its followers.

I’m not really sure if I’ve found my voice yet. I think it’s getting there, but I’m not sure it’s there completely yet. So much more goes into it than just the way the words sound I think. I’m still formaing many opinions about this industry and while I know where I stand for the most part I know I can still move in a few directions. The voice is getting there though and it’s getting closer to be what I want.