> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hiddenvoices.ghost.io/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # A Conversation with Ralph Mercier Vince on: The Quiet Side of Writing - URL: https://hiddenvoices.ghost.io/hiddenvoices-ghost-io-a-conversation-with-ralph-mercier-vince/ - Published: 2026-09-07T12:10:32.000Z - Updated: 2026-09-07T12:13:14.000Z - Description: “I write for an audience of one. I have to…” - Author: Roberta Maretti - Tags: Author Conversations, Follow Hidden Voices ***Ralph Mercier Vince*** is a Charles H. Dow Award winner whose work spans decades across finance, mathematics, and technical analysis. Having worked with fund managers, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices worldwide, his analytical precision is matched by a deeply introspective creative voice. He was Larry Williams’ programmer and trader during the legendary 1987 championship run and has contributed to some of the most respected works in technical analysis, including Technical Analysis of Stock Trends. But beyond the numbers, there is another side to Vince’s work, one that unfolds quietly, line by line, far from performance metrics or public recognition. In this conversation, he reflects on writing as something deeply personal, instinctive, and often unseen. --- ***The Conversation*** ***What does your writing life look like in the moments no one sees?*** > A line "felt," not yet articulated – in a day-to-day-moment. Perhaps sitting in an ancient European Cathedral, just, losing myself, in the "prayer" of that line. Feeling it, as it beaks upwards through the soil, revealing who, what, it will become. > The day continues, the line starts to take form, The words, the pattern, the cadence, while having a coffee, or waiting to meet someone for lunch... > The sense that, there is no deadline, it will be created and form to a state that I find perfect in due course. I write for an audience of one. I have to, I dont know if anyone else will ever read it, or savor it, as I do. But what else am I going to do? Go out and feed the pigeons in the parc? ***Have you experienced doubt or hesitation in your journey? What did that feel like?*** > Every day. I question why I am doing this. (I see how eager those pigeons are for the food of others!). I have to remind myself of the joy a paragraph, a perfectly written paragraph – just its cadence, its drumbeat.... > Two monks of the curb > bob and peck -the whole park swings > sun breaks on their backs. ***How do you navigate slower or quieter periods creatively?*** > I ignore them. Life happens, this is not a chore to me but an indulgence. ***Is there something about writing that you wish more people understood?*** > I dont care what they think though. It has no impact on me or doing this at all. ***What has writing taught you about yourself?*** > I NEED it. It's a need of some sort I dont really understand, the way sex is (and the two are SO closely related) or the appreciation for something beautiful when I see it....it is a chance to see, read, more things of beauty. > And when I do, it matters not to me whether I created it or someone else did, oddly. --- ***Closing Note*** ***Ralph Mercier Vince***’s reflections strip writing down to something raw and essential. Not performance. Not productivity. Not even recognition. Just the quiet pull of a line forming somewhere beneath the surface, and the need to follow it. His words remind us that much of writing happens far from view. In pauses. In doubt. In moments that don’t look like progress but are, in fact, the work itself. And perhaps most of all, that sometimes, the audience of one is enough. --- ***Stay Connected*** If this conversation resonated with you, consider subscribing to Hidden Voices to explore more of what exists beneath the surface of the writing life.