Voices
"I've learned two very important lessons in life. I can't recall the first one, but the second one is that I need to start writing things down."
That picture is supposed to have a snake in it. I can see a few things that could maybe be a snake, but I don't see anything that waves at me and says for sure, 'here I am'.
I tried to leave it large enough if anyone can find it for sure let me know. I may have to leave the side writing off to make it really large.
The birds are happy today. They still have feed in the feeder. I sat and read by the bird-feeder window on a recommended read.
It was recommended as in, 'how do you think you can write 'special agent' material unless you write like Tom Clancy?'
Everyone has their own voice, as it's called. I have found this novel interesting, and as President Reagan called it, 'a good yarn', but I won't ever write like Mr. Clancy. Special Agent or not.
There are some things I would not include in my writing. He doesn't have a ton of foul language, but he has way more than I deem necessary, and as a Christian writer more than I would use.
This highlights some of the problems of writing. A writer's personal voice is their own. It won't be someone else's. Nor should it be.
Lives are like that. In my children's lives I can see some of their inherited traits. My daughter is a lovely combination of the good habits of my mother, my mother-in-law, and in some cases my grandmother.
Our sons also have inherited traits, many of them good, and some not so good. When I look at the combinations from the ages I find it quite interesting. It is another aspect of the phrase, 'No man is an island'.
That phrase I'm sure was supposed to reach out into society, yet within a person it also reaches back into inherited genes. It is also interesting that even with all of this we are still more.
I've believed that with all of the problems my mother had, if she had been taught Godly principles it could and would have shaped her acceptable choices and thus her outcomes.
