Writing is unlike speaking — you don’t have to catch your breath. But you must give it the right spacing so the reader can catch theirs. Pages, Chapters — so they can drink some water: go on a walk and ponder your thoughts.
You don’t have physical actions on your face as it fights your brain to elicit a reaction. You may even hear your voice first before you have to stop yourself from spilling unknown secrets
Writing gives you the time to create magic—the time to make corrections. The space to leave your words and also have a walk while they wait for you on your desktop.
And your voice sometimes wants to scream out its anger. Bellowing regret you can’t catch in the moment before your eyes, lips and face betray them. Even when you don’t speak, your tears of laughter are enough. Our written words aren’t just words when they take flight from page to ear.
But does writing have a voice? A sound in your head slowing and speeding as you take time with your thoughts. A voice with different tones and volumes as you page through exclamations and capitalisations.
And what is the sound of calm? What is the sound of slow reading if not ‘spaced out’ words? The reader slows and quickens their heartbeats, running through the emotions of your words.
What is the sound of a lover’s voice telling you ‘they don’t want to do this anymore”? What is the sound of pain on the page as you weep ceaselessly, trying to blot out the ink?
Whether spoken or written, words do have power.
And we select the best form or method that would pass our message across effectively.
Not everything needs to be said. And not every word has to be written!