Finding Your Voice - Part One

"Finding your voice" as a writer can be a long road that finally leads to that magical combination of grace and hard work - the perfect story in the hands of the perfect story teller. How we reach that magical state is different for each writer, but there are some steps we all can take to facilitate the journey.

Spelling

Regardless of the language you use when writing, correct spelling will go a long way to adding credibility to anything you have to say. Similarly, poor spelling will detract from your overall presentation and believability.

Using a good SpellCheck program will help the situation considerably, and using the SpellChecker that is part of the Hub Pages program is highly recommended. Those little red lines that appear under some words are there for a reason - the word has been misspelled.

I see them a lot - not because I can't spell, but because I am not a very accurate typist. I then dutifully right-click on the underlined word and a menu pops up with several selections from which I can choose the correctly spelled entry. The real trick lies in knowing which is the correct one.

I work with a dictionary and a thesaurus on my desk, but these reference books can also be accessed in any decent word processing program, by right-clicking on the word and selecting "Look Up", or its equivalent value from the menu. If you work in Note Pad, or something like it, I would highly recommend either purchasing the books in hard copy or becoming familiar with the online dictionary sites.