Make fifty of something. Somewhere around number thirty, you’ll start sounding like yourself.

The first handful of anything comes out sounding like whatever you have absorbed. The imitation burns off with volume, because you run out of borrowed moves and your own habits start filling the gaps, and repetition turns a style into something you do rather than something you pick. That only happens at a quantity most people never reach.

Choose something small enough to make dozens of times. A pot, a beat, a page. Do not judge the early ones, and keep them in order so you can watch the change arrive.