Be yourself. Above all, let who you are, what you are, what you believe shine through every sentence you write, every piece you finish.
“As a professional football player, I have known perfectly well from the day I started playing that every day I have to fight for my place.”
“My brother arrived some months after my father left. Um, and he ah, was thus eight years younger than me and it was um, you know, it was such a time that my mother probably had people wondering was it his.”