Writing that Releases an Ultrasonic Boom
How to get heard in a world of noise
Every writer today is clamoring to be heard.
Every writer is striving to rise above the noise of the crowd.
Every writer, as well as everyone in the world, is speaking louder and louder, just to be noticed. Just to get a little attention. Just to feel important.
Faster than the Speed of Sound
But in a world with over seven and a half billion people, it’s getting harder to satiate that need.
Harder to materialize that desire. Harder to emulate those who are getting heard.
So, it’s easier to feel insignificant.
In fact, to be heard these days almost requires you to speak faster than the speed of sound.
In short, most people have started speaking so loudly their voice carries a BOOM … by blasting overdramatized overzealous messages. Battling others with obtuse marketing.
And baiting others with offerings of Mars.
The Blasé of Overdone
But the world is getting so congested with so many of these booming voices that they aren’t being heard anymore either.
By the time people really can go to Mars, that message will also have become blasé. Overdone to the point that no one is interested anymore. So it’s overlooked.
People will get a glazed look in their eyes.
They’ll shrug. Turn down the volume. And turn away.
For it’s old news.
And what people want is something new. Novel. Never-eyed-before.
Seeking the Ultrasonic Voyeur
Thus, they are seeking the VOYEUR … because they’re vacillating with overdone and overprocessed yammerings of every unceasing repetition.
So, instead, they’re voraciously obsessed and yearning for the exotic, the unique, and the refreshing.
They’re seeking vivid observations coming from you … from your eclectic understandings and responses to the world. In short, they’re seeking the experience of ultrasonic rapture.
They long for anything what is worthy of giving their attention to.
They long for all those things that you have kept locked up inside you. Inside your mind. Your heart.
Your unusual soul.
Buried Voices
In today’s world, that part of you that you keep hidden inside of you is buried treasure.
It’s the unseen gold that lies deep within you. The treasures of buried voices. Those riches of buried voices that you haven’t yet tapped …
All because you were too scared.
For your secret self is that part of you that’s been unvoiced. Unheard. Because your mom and dad and others around you made you think it was unacceptable.
That part of you that you were sure would be rejected.
That part of you that you believed no one could understand. That no one cared about. That no one could love.
And sure.
It’s a risk. It could be dangerous to reveal that part of yourself. For there’s no guarantee that others won’t find that part of you unacceptable. There’s no guarantees of any kind.
For what’s hidden inside of you may not truly be gold.
What’s Buried and Useful
For it all depends on how you use that part of you.
But mostly, it all depends on others. Depends on how others use what you have to offer. Depends on how useful others perceive your offerings.
For as Anil Seth says in his book Being You, “We perceive the world not as it is, but as it is useful for us.”
So how valuable your inner treasure is depends on whether others deem what is buried inside of you is helpful or useful.
Thus, you have to be smart enough to make it beneficial to others.
Discovering Useful Tales
You have to even step inside others minds and hearts.
Step inside their very souls. And get an understanding of what they think is valuable enough to listen to. Get a feeling about the things that might help them solve their problems.
For the truth is you must turn revelations uncovered in you into tales of helpful healing.
Wholesome habits.
And healthy heroics.
But that doesn’t necessarily mean you have to be perfect. For you know deep inside yourself that you’re not perfect. That no one is.
But it does mean that you have to teach resourcefulness by urging others to trust in your honesty.
Dealing with the Wolf
Thus, you can’t cry ‘wolf’ without actually calling out the wolf you see in the world … even if it means you could get bitten.
And you can’t demand others do something about said wolf unless you are ready to face that wolf yourself. And demand that he alter his actions. Even when you know he has an insatiable hunger for what you deem as indefensible.
And when the wolf comes huffing and puffing at your door, you don’t cower inside.
Instead you answer the door with your phone in your hand. You record everything you’re sure the wolf will try to do to you. Not to seek revenge.
Not even to seek justice.
The Ultrasonic Boom of the Truth
And not just to be heard.
But just so the world will get the truth of what’s happening in the world around them. Even if what the wolf is doing is sometimes scarier to deal with than being along on a dark night with a werewolf.
So, the big question is, do you think your reader will be able to handle the truth instead of being scared to death?
And how can you make the horrifying truth useful and even edible enough for a reader to chew on without scaring them half to death?
In short, the truth of the matter is in how you turn a reality of unsuspected tumult and horror into the trusting reckonings of useful truths and honesty.
For that is how a writer releases an ultrasonic boom that will benefit all those in the world around you.
