Tips to Consider When Writing Your Personal Essay

While reading an article which was NOT about writing a Personal Statement, I picked up some tips that might help you when writng your essay.

• Go against the normal order of things. When your audience can anticipate what you are going to say next, it becomes uninteresting.
• When writing create a bit of suspense.
• Cliches make for boring reading.
• Speak the truth--be authentic.  Be true to yourself.
• Share what you feel not what you think.
• How did something smell, taste or sound?
• Describe how something looked.
• Speak from your heart.