As an avid writer, I don't know why this didn't occur to me earlier. And a quick Google search produces little fare on the topic. So, tell me about your craft. Upon further conversation, I will definitely share mine.
With practice writing can become an expression of oneself.
After a while you will discover your own voice; and after a while you will discover your voice has its own style.
And this is just the beginning. Once you discover you have a distinctive voice and style, you may discover you have other voices and styles.
But the first essential step is to discover your own voice and style.
But what is fascinating is those who do not have their own voice and style. What do they do? How do they write? And what do they sound like?
Do they borrow a voice from someone else? Do they mimic? Do they imitate?
Or do they think they simply write down their thoughts and feelings?
Or perhaps they follow the rules of logic.
Or perhaps they follow the rules of an ideology.
Or perhaps they follow the rules of MBTI.
But whatever they do, they follow the rules.
And then they become the rules-police.
I've had the rules-police onto me ever since I joined this site.
Bless their cotton socks.
But I would much prefer a faltering and unsteady voice, a voice that was struggling to be itself, than a self-satisfied, imitation voice.
How I long to hear that cool, clear voice that is really you.
I long to hear the sound of your voice.