The One Thing That Made Me An Award-Winning Journalist

And why your writing needs it too

This week, I got some very welcome feedback from a new editor I’m working with. She told me—effusively, I might add—that she loves working with me and that what really sets my writing apart is my style and voice. Two things I spent way too long avoiding in the first half of my career.

When I first started as a writer, my goal was to sound like everyone e…