Sometimes i reread the things i’ve written, and i cringe. Writing is mostly getting out the words as fast as you can before your internal editor says “No, don’t say that.” And so when i write things, sometimes i inadvertently hurt people; i don’t mean to.

I’m sorry about the bad language; but when i write now, the words just come out of me. I’m not writing the 19th century English novel; this is me. I’m not writing for college or for high school. I’m writing for me.

Maybe i should’ve written for me all along. Maybe writing for grades corrupted my voice. So if you have to write something for school or work or whatever, don’t be afraid to use your voice. Your voice is one of the only things that’s truly yours. You don’t need to try to sound like somebody else. You sound fine the way you are.

If they didn’t want you writing in your own voice, they would have somebody else do it.

Don’t let people tell you how to talk. Don’t let people tell you how to write.