Join Your Chorus

Sharing Your Writing Voice with the World

Individually, the impact you or I can make in the world is limited. But as part of a larger group, we can amplify and augment each other.

If you want to have an impact in the world, pay attention to the choruses you join.

You can’t create change alone

As a classically trained singer, I enjoy both solo and symphonic choral work (back when choruses were rehearsing and performing together.) The lessons of singing apply pretty well to the rest of my life.

Choral singers blend their voices with others in their sections. You cannot measure the difference your voice makes to your section, especially in a larger group. But you know in your heart that you contribute.

In a chorus, you become part of something greater than the sum of its parts. When everyone is singing in perfect tune, the resonances expand and the sound carries in a different way. You can feel it.

The same thing is often true of writing.

You write, not seeing the impact you have, but in faith that it does matter. You may worry that your idea isn’t original, that you have nothing new to contribute to the conversation. Yet there is still value in chipping in, in adding your voice to those of…