My advice would be to write what is most personal and specific to your experience or your life. And your voice will emerge and because of its specificity, it will be universal.

Science provides an understanding of a universal experience. Arts provide a universal understanding of a personal experience.

Everything is reflected in both - outside (out there) and inside (in here) - marvel at it, experience, learn. The personal is also the universal, and the universal is also the personal.

My favorite thing about my family is that my sister and I will go over to our parents' house on the weekend and play canasta.

I do write a lot from personal experience, but I also embellish a bit.

Being generous or doing things for others actually makes me feel good so I don't do it because I hope karma will come round and get me and I'll benefit from it.