"Sell your heart"

"Selling" your heart is another step in the               writer's journey.

Today I've listened to the next creative writing "lesson". In this episode the host talked about a very important problem common for many writers. The issue is about difficulty of finding your own voice as a writer, to create something that would truly express how y o u feel and what y o u think, not the artists that you are reading.For example there was mentioned an interview with Ray Bradbury, an author of f.ex.: "Martian Chronicles" or "October Country". The interviewer asked him about his past situation when he had been trying to write something good for 10 years and then suddenly wrote a short story in 1 hour that he was happy about for the first time in his writing career. Bradbury explained that after a long time of trying to be like the authors he admired, he finally found his own style, his own true voice.

I enjoyed listening to this podcast because the problem is very relatable for me. I think that finding that unique and irreplaceable "voice" is probably one of the most difficult struggles you have to overcome if you want to be a good writer. Because it's always easy to try recreate what has been written once, but it's much harder to create something completely diferrent and new. Something that would be truly  y o u r s. In order to do so, you will need to do one thing - sell your soul.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p053dy4h