““A writer must develop a representative voice. A writing voice is reflective of the sum total of his or her cognitive, physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences. A writer’s voice emerges from the capillaries of their being. Any written exploration of a writer’s mind effuses from the pooling of their lifeblood; a stream of thought flows onto the tract of sentences as the blood drips from their veins and indelibly stains each page. Personal essay writing is an act of hemorrhaging droplets of words onto paper. Each word that we write spills a pinprick of red blood. Writing about a collective pooling of personal experiences is a quest to discern a person’s own reality by engaging in an intentional act of bloodletting.””
