An interviewer asked Gilbert Gottfried, the comic, about his unique style:
“Your delivery,” he said, “when did you first develop that?”
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I relate to his answer. Maybe you will, too?
“It’s like, you know, I don’t know,” said Gottfried. “I just went on stage, you know, a few billion times, then one day I woke up and said, ‘Oh, I seem to be like that now.’”
It applies to any creative craft, really, but especially writing.
Because most writers find their style eventually and accidentally, not immediately and purposefully.
I know I did.
I know I just showed up often and did what felt right and tried to stay present and tried to emulate my heroes and tried to enjoy the work day by day. And slowly, surely, my style began to take shape, my shape.
It’s a process.
And we’re all going through it.
Trick is to just keep going.
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