Quite honored to be sharing some fine company in the Bustle joint "How To Write A Personal Essay That’ll Tell Your Story The Way You Want It To."

Possibly even more than honored, not that we're sure what that would be. Excerpt? Word.

Examine Your Level of Sincerity Within Your Piece

If you’ve published before, think about how honest you’ve been in your past pieces — and make sure you get to the same place of sincerity again. Push yourself harder if you haven’t. People are attracted to the way people tell stories, not necessarily what they’re writing about, Ben Tanzer said. “If people feel like they can trust you for all the same reasons they did before, they’ll fall in love with you.”