Establishing your own voice
์ฐ๋ฆฌ๋ง์ ๋ณด์ด์ค ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ธฐ
Whether you realize it or not, you already have a unique voice; the tricky part can be classifying it and pinning it down.
์๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๋ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ์ด๋ฏธ ๋
ํนํ ๋ณด์ด์ค๋ฅผ ๊ฐ์ง๊ณ ์์ด์. ๊ทธ๊ฑธ ์ ๋ฆฌํ๊ณ ์ ์๋ด๋ฆฌ๋ ๊ฒ ์ด๋ ค์ธ ๋ฟ์ด์ฃ .
To describe your voice โ which, in turn, will allow you to diagram it, create guidelines around it, and make it reproducible โ youโll need to do some investigation and self reflection. Ask yourself these questions:
๋ณด์ด์ค๋ฅผ ์ ์ํ ๋ค ๊ทธ๊ฒ์ ๋ค์ด์ด๊ทธ๋จ๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ด๋๋ผ์ธ์ผ๋ก ๋ง๋ค๊ณ , ์ฝํ
์ธ ์ ์ ์ฉํ๊ธฐ ์ํด์๋ ์ฐ๋ฆฌ ์กฐ์ง์ด ์ด๋ค์ง ์กฐ์ฌํ๊ณ ์ค์ค๋ก ๋๋์๋ณด์์ผ ํด์. ๋ค์๊ณผ ๊ฐ์ ์ง๋ฌธ๋ค์ด ํ์ํ์ฃ .
What are my core values?
์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ํต์ฌ ๊ฐ์น๋ ๋ญ๊น?
Your voice is a reflection of your core values. Before you craft a voice, consider the values your organization represents and how you can translate these into stylistic patterns. If youโre part of a young organization that hasnโt yet codified its values, you might use this opportunity to start that conversation. Crafting a voice before youโve determined your organizationโs values can be dangerous โ your voice might not reflect what you eventually decide on. Along the same lines, if your organization is undergoing a large-scale values overhaul, youโll want to make sure your organizational voice reflects your new values.
์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ํต์ฌ ๊ฐ์น๊ฐ ๊ณง ๋ณด์ด์ค์์. ๋ณด์ด์ค๋ฅผ ๊ตฌ์ถํ๊ธฐ ์ ์ ์กฐ์ง์ ๋ํํ๋ ๊ฐ์น๊ฐ ๋ฌด์์ธ์ง ์๊ฐํด๋ณด๊ณ ๊ทธ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ์ ์ ๋๋ ๋ง๋ก ์จ๋ณด์ธ์. ๋ง์ฝ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ด ์์ง ๊ทธ๋ฐ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๋ฌธ์๋ก ๋ง๋ค์ด๋์ง ์์ ์๊ธด์ง ์ผ๋ง ์ ๋ ์กฐ์ง์ ๊ตฌ์ฑ์์ด๋ผ๋ฉด ์ด๋ฒ ๊ธฐํ์ ํด๋ณด์ธ์. ํต์ฌ ๊ฐ์น๊ฐ ๋ญ์ง๋ ๋ชจ๋ฅด๊ณ ๋ณด์ด์ค๋ฅผ ๋ง๋๋ ค๊ณ ํ๋ ๊ฑด ์ข์ง ์์์. ๊ฒฐ๊ตญ ๋ณด์ด์ค๊ฐ ์กฐ์ง์ ๊ฐ์น์ ์ ๋
์ ๋ด์ง ๋ชปํ ํ
๋๊น์. ์ ๋ฒ ํฐ ์กฐ์ง์ด ์์ ์ ๋ฌธ์๋ก ๋ง๋ ํต์ฌ ๊ฐ์น๋ฅผ ๊ฒํ ํ๋ ๋จ๊ณ๋ผ๋ฉด ๋ฐ๊ฟ ๋ถ๋ถ์ ์๋์ง ํ์ธํ์
์ผ ํด์.
Who is my audience?
์ฐ๋ฆฌ์ ๊ธ์ ๋๊ฐ ์ฝ์๊น?
In writing, as elsewhere, your audience is paramount โ without them, youโd have no reason to write. Put yourself in their situation and think about the stylistic traits that might appeal to them. Remember, your voice doesnโt need to appeal to everyone (and, in fact, shouldnโt โ cure-alls cure nothing, as the old saying goes).
๊ธ์ฐ๊ธฐ์์๋ ๋๊ฐ ๊ทธ ๊ธ์ ์ฝ๋์ง๊ฐ ๊ฐ์ฅ ์ค์ํด์. ์ฝ์ด์ค ์ฌ๋์ด ์์ผ๋ฉด ๊ธ์ ์ธ ์ด์ ๊ฐ ์์ฃ . ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ด ์ฌ์ฉ์์ ์
์ฅ์ด ๋์ด, ์ด๋ค ๊ธ์ด ํจ๊ณผ์ ์ผ์ง ์๊ฐํด ๋ณด์ธ์. ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ๊ธ์ด ๋ชจ๋์๊ฒ ์๋ฏธ๋ฅผ ์ง๋ ํ์๋ ์๋ค๋ ๊ฑธ ์์ง ๋ง์๊ณ ์. ๋ง๋ณํต์น์ฝ์ ์ฌ์ค ์๋ฌด๊ฒ๋ ์น๋ฃํ์ง ์๋ ๋ณ์ด๋ผ๋ ์๋ด์ด ์์์์.
Use your answers to these questions to craft a description of your voice. Once youโve come up with your description, look it over and identify any contradictions or holes (never a good thing). While voices should be nuanced, they should also be cohesive.
์ ๋ ์ง๋ฌธ์ ๋ํ ๋ต์ ๊ฐ๊ณ ๋ณด์ด์ค๋ฅผ ์ ์ํด๋ณด์ธ์. ์ ์ํ ๋ค์์๋ ๋ชจ์์ด๋ ๋น ์ง ๋ด์ฉ์ด ์๋์ง ๊ผผ๊ผผํ๊ฒ ๊ฒํ ํ์ธ์. ๋ณด์ด์ค๋ ์กฐ์ง์ ๋์์ค๋ฅผ ๋ด๋ ๋์์, ์กฐ์ง๊ณผ ์์ฃผ ๋๋จ์ด์ง๊ฑฐ๋ ๊ณ ๋ฆฝ๋ ๊ฐ๋
์ด์ด์๋ ์๋ผ์.
Choosing a tone
์ ์ ํ ํค์ ๊ณ ๋ฅด๋ ๋ฐฉ๋ฒ
As we mentioned earlier, your voice is a constant, but your tone is a variable. Consider the following: If youโre having an irredeemably terrible day, you might get peeved at a store associate who chirpily (and repeatedly) asks if they can help you with anything. While the associate maintained a helpful voice, they failed to shift from an energetic to a restrained tone based on your mood. As a result, their message (however valuable or well-intended) is lost on you.
๋ง์๋๋ ธ๋ค์ํผ ๋ณด์ด์ค๋ ๋ณํ์ง ์์ง๋ง, ํค์ ๊ทธ๋๊ทธ๋ ๋ฐ๋ ์ ์์ด์. ์ด๋ ๊ฒ ์๊ฐํด ๋ณด์ธ์. ๋ง์ฝ ์์ฃผ ๋์ฐํ ํ๋ฃจ๋ฅผ ๋ณด๋ธ ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์๊ฒ ์น๊ตฌ๊ฐ ์ฌ์๊ฑฐ๋ฆฌ๋ฉฐ ๋์ธ ๊ฒ ์๋์ง ๊ณ์ ๋ฌผ์ด๋ณธ๋ค๋ฉด ์ฌ๋ฌ๋ถ์ ํ๊ฐ ๋ ๊ฑฐ์์. ์น๊ตฌ๋ โ๋์์ด ๋๋โ ๋ณด์ด์ค๋ฅผ ์ ์งํ์ง๋ง ์๋๋ฐฉ์ ๊ธฐ๋ถ์ ๊ณ ๋ คํด โํ๊ธฐ์ฐฌโ ํค์ โ์ ์ ๋โ ํค์ผ๋ก ๋ฐ๊พธ์ง๋ ๋ชป ํ ๊ฑฐ์ฃ . ๊ฒฐ๊ณผ์ ์ผ๋ก ์๋๋ฐฉ์ ๋๊ณ ์ถ์๋ ์น๊ตฌ์ ๋ฉ์์ง๋ ์ ๋ฌ๋์ง ์์์ด์.
To avoid going the way of the associate, think about your usersโ needs in different situations. Use these needs to determine your tone.
์ด๋ฐ ์ํฉ์ ํผํ๊ณ ์ถ๋ค๋ฉด ์ฌ๋ฌ ์ํฉ์์ ์ฌ์ฉ์๊ฐ ๋ฌด์์ ํ์๋ก ํ ์ง ์ ์๊ฐํด ๋ณด์ธ์. ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๊ณ ์ฌ์ฉ์์ ํ์์ ๋ง์ถฐ ํค์ ๊ฒฐ์ ํ์ธ์. |