Your style will change. Let it. Nobody wants to be stuck sounding like they did at sixteen.

A style is a snapshot of what you understood at the time, and understanding keeps moving. Trying to preserve the version people first liked turns a living practice into maintenance, and the work slowly stops being yours. Change often arrives as discomfort, a sense that what used to feel right now feels thin.

Notice which of your habits you are keeping out of loyalty rather than conviction. Drop one on purpose in your next piece and see what fills the gap. Keep an older piece around to compare against, because the change is easier to welcome once you can see it as movement.