Voice is defined as the author's fingerprints. By the voice you can narrow down who wrote the book without even looking at the front cover. Things that make up your voice include: word choice, sentence length, use of prepositional phrases and adjectives, and beat and rhythm of the story.
While your style and voice will just come, there are also ways to work on it. However, you should not worry about it extensively until you have some experience. When you are first starting to write you should first be focusing on the character, plot, and setting.
"The people paying you to write should be focusing on your voice."
Said Bookisms: Anything you write instead of said. Some people say that you should never use said or asked. THIS IS FALSE. Said and asked are invisible when you use them and your attributions should be the least interesting part of the dialogue.
Advice: Choose a few things about your voice you want to change and try tweaking your writing. Then keep doing it until you master what you were trying to accomplish. Only then can you take on a couple more items you want to try and tweak.
Finally...PRACTICE PRACTICE PRACTICE.
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