first post

I am by long standing habit an imitator. I pick out qualities in people or my understanding of God that I find virtuous or appealing and try to emulate them. I find it to be a very crippling habit, but I am experiencing freedom from it as I learn to walk in step with the truth that I have been set free to be myself. My real self, my second self; one far different and far fuller than the one I grew up knowing. And as this applies to what I write, I, without knowing any way to not, try hard to imitate the literary voice of an author I admire and respect. If you know me and my preferences well, or are familiar with his voice and I do a good job of faking it, then it should not be hard to tell who I mean. But perhaps as I write, even in the steps of trying to sound like someone I am not, I will find my own voice.