Your voice is like a reflection of your own personal truth, right? And some of that is really simple, banal things, am and some of those things are actually deep and complex. One piece of advice in the book comes from martha rich: The minute you think about trying to have a style, stop. Kate bigaman birt has her college students do an exercise called creative family tree. She's trying to get them to think about all of the things that they might tell a story about.