Several months ago, this crossed my desk at work – https://pages.18f.gov/content-guide/voice-and-tone/
It’s a style guide – a really nicely done one – with one particular page on defining one’s organizational ‘voice’.
But it got me thinking. What is my personal voice?
Our voice is our unique personality. Just as you can identify your best friend in a crowd as soon as you hear her distinctive laugh, you can use a person’s voice to identify a piece of writing even if you haven’t seen the byline. A well-crafted voice communicates personality and values — it’s a distilled representation of an author.
It seemed like it would be a good exercise – a psychology profile, more than anything – to try to define my own voice.
And I’m kinda stuck.