{"id":15260,"date":"2017-05-22T05:05:58","date_gmt":"2017-05-22T10:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisatener.local\/?p=15260"},"modified":"2024-09-30T08:58:29","modified_gmt":"2024-09-30T12:58:29","slug":"finding-writing-voice-taking-risks-page","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodieburdette.net\/lisatener\/2017\/05\/finding-writing-voice-taking-risks-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Finding Your Writing Voice by Taking Risks on the Page"},"content":{"rendered":"

[bctt tweet=”Finding Your Writing Voice: from Meek to Bold” username=”LisaTener”]<\/h2>\n
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Rhea at Machu Picchu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At 72, Rhea Atwood found herself in her comfortable California apartment feeling her bed was “too soft.”<\/p>\n

“I decided to listen to my bed and waited a few days for it to tell me what to do about it.”<\/p>\n

Rhea spent the next four years following in the footsteps of the French Huguenots across the globe, visiting 17 countries and 5 continents, and surfing on a number of\u00a0couches through couchsurfing<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previously a cautious\u00a0risk taker, Rhea became, in her own words, intrepid. At times she had no money and no place to stay. Can you imagine? And yet she persisted.<\/p>\n

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Rhea in Istanbul<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Now, Rhea is writing a book about her experiences.<\/p>\n

Although Rhea has written a walking guide\u00a0and a book of historic photographs–Boston’s French Secrets<\/em> <\/a>and Upper Beacon Hill<\/a><\/em>–her current project is her first foray into more narrative writing (the self-help memoir). With a change in genre comes the search to find her writing voice.<\/p>\n

My advice? “Take risks on the page. In the same way you took risks by traveling alone at 72 through 76, not knowing where you’d stay or sometimes how you’d pay for it, you need to be adventurous on the page.”<\/p>\n

How to Take Risks on the Page<\/h3>\n