      I've always admired voice actors.
      Not because they have beautiful voices, but because the best of them make you forget you're listening to an actor.       A trembling breath, a single hesitation, one word spoken at exactly the right moment… and suddenly the emotion feels real.
      It made me realize something about my own relationship with writing.
      I've never really felt comfortable calling myself an author. Whenever people ask what I do, I don't say, "I'm writing a novel."       I say, "I'm writing a story."
      Maybe because, deep down, I don't want readers to admire my sentences.       I want them to forget the words are there.       I want them to laugh, ache, hope and grieve alongside my characters.
      Voice actors give a voice to words that already exist.       Writers give words to emotions that don't.       Different crafts, perhaps.       But the same purpose.
      We're all just trying to tell a story that will live, for a little while, inside someone else's heart.
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