I’m a professional writer who speaks in different voices:
- of the various experts I write books for
- of the businesses I write copy and newsletters for
- of the nonprofits I write grants and reports for
- and of my own literary nonfiction books.
Over years of constructing other people’s books, training manuals, websites, reports, grant proposals, flyers, press releases, etc., I developed a level of skill I’ve only recently become aware of. It’s like putting together the pieces of a complicated puzzle. There’s aesthetic satisfaction in seeing them lock into place to form a clearly articulated construction.
And writing in everyone else’s style doesn’t seem to stifle my own voice—just gives me greater range.
