Upon exploring the writer's inspiration and the confidence needed to start writing when faced with a blank space to fill, I often hear that writers had to abide by the 'urge to write, an internal force, surging from either the mind or the spirit and which cannot be resisted'. I was then wondering if this urge/force pushing out from within is what readers come to hear as the writer's voice(s) since any endeavor to produce a meaningful work can be likened to the birthing of a new form of existence. Just like actors, dancers, and other artists are becoming different personae while performing their arts; do writers too shed some of their own personalities within their works while they create/narrate a story?

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