5 Ways to Turn Down the Volume to Hear Your Own Voice
Comedian and syndicated cartoonist Jason Chatfield shares five specific ways to turn down the volume in your life to hear your own unique voice as a writer and creative.
There’s something to be said for immersing yourself in the marketplace of ideas and being exposed to what your contemporaries are doing. There is, however, a very real danger that in doing so, you become the kind of creative individual that does more on-looking than creating.
This is a concept I’ve returned to again and again after various bouts of dipping my toe into the soggy morass of social media. I’ve never quite felt at ease using any free products wherein, due to their very?free-ness, I become the product, and give away small chunks of my soul in the process.
The ability to yank yourself out of the endless slip-stream of “content” and quietly explore your own ideas is one that should be cultivated above all else. That is, unless, you like the idea of mimicking everyone around you by osmosis and wondering why nobody is noticing your work.