I appreciate your response and I'm going to give you my answer to all the comments.

If we have to agree that one doesn't become a better writer by writing more then we have to agree that one doesn't become a better reader by reading more. After all, they both are cognitive skills and must have similar effects. Therefore reading more doesn't equal understanding more.

You mentioned that one must study the masters yet you forgot to define the concept of mastery and how one gets to know what mastery is if they don't have the experience and knowledge to identify it in the first place.

You mentioned that you find great poets here on Medium and that's wonderful however that's your preference and it might not fit someone’s else taste of mastery. They might think those poems are far from great. If they blindly follow what the masses call mastery one day they might wake up astonished at how far they are lacking compared to the bigger picture and more profound masters outside Medium. If they follow the steps of “those masters” they might fail at winning an entry-level reward at a local community poetry contest.

Reading more makes people faster at reading, but it doesn't mean it turns them into better writers. Being a better thinker and having a more diverse experience and depth in life do make one a better writer.

Chess is a game of techniques and pattern recognition, writing is a game of creativity. It is a game of connecting different points to create something “relatively different”.

The more ones read the more they become a collection of other people's work and their results will be no different than the collective work they read. ChatGpt is the biggest proof of that.

Now let's come to finding one's voice. What voice? In my opinion, voice is only a universal template we add our own experience on top of it to make it a little bit different.

If we collectively study and dissect the work of most writing we will find that they come to a few shared styles, voices and approaches to writing.

Finding a voice is nothing but expressing one's attitude and look on life through writing. It doesn't need one to find it, it only needs one to have more depth and experience in life and then learn how to express it through communication skills.

I appreciate your comment, and taking the time to go through the piece. I respect your opinion and view. Have a wonderful day.

Bless you.