I was beginning to hate writing. It felt forced, pretentious, awkward — and it was, because I was suppressing my ‘true’ voice.

Then I read the passage below from “Writing Down The Bones” and I was set free. I found the ‘jazz’ of writing that I’d been searching for. I through away the form and convention, and I’ve never looked back.

I may not write great poetry, but by and large, it is my authentic voice, the voice that speaks to me in the real-time moment of the creative act of writing – and it is fulfilling as hell…

“Once you have learned to trust your own voice and allowed that creative force inside you to come out, you can direct it to write short stories, novels, and poetry, do revisions, and so on. You have the basic tool to fulfill your writing dreams.”