Finding a voice for your newsletter

Try these three exercises as a way to get comfortable

Mike Holden
5 min readMar 17, 2023
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Your newsletter needs a voice, a tone, a narrator.

Perhaps your first response to that is, “It’s my newsletter and I’m the voice.”

Great, you can be yourself. But, what if your newsletter is for a brand or what if you want to be yourself, but aren’t sure if you should be the serious-you, the funny-you or something in between.

Or, what if you don’t feel like you’ve found your own voice yet when it comes to writing?

Let’s go through three exercises to help you find and get more comfortable with your voice:

  • Using dictation to capture your voice in words
  • Writing as another person or character
  • Finding a place to publish in your voice without hitting send

Use voice dictation to capture your spoken voice in writing

Sometimes it can be hard to write as fast as the words are flowing in our mind. Other times, it might feel like it’s difficult to get any good words down on the page, let alone find our voice.

Fortunately, there’s a cure for all of this that modern technology makes very easy. It allows us to capture…

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Mike Holden

Marketing leader with 20 years of experience. Dad of 6. Get ideas in the No Budget Marketing newsletter. https://bio.link/mikeholden