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Quick Tips On Finding Your Voice As A Writer

What you can learn from Joan Didion, David Sedaris, and others who always sound like themselves

Janice Harayda
Published in
7 min readMay 5, 2024

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David Sedaris at a typewriter
David Sedaris at work / Anne Fishbein via Steven Barclay Agency

As a staff writer for Glamour, I worked for an editor who was married to a psychiatrist, which may explain some of her more offbeat advice. She once said, as I tried to…

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Janice Harayda
Lit Life

Critic, novelist, award-winning journalist. Former book editor of the Plain Dealer and book columnist for Glamour. Words in NYT, WSJ, and other major media.