Kathleen Buckley
Read good fiction and the kind you want to write. Write every day. Don't rely on literary criticism by your mother or best friend (unless they're published writers). When you ask for a critique, don't automatically reject the suggestions; don't automatically accept them either. Some will be valid and some won't be. You'll have to learn to distinguish which is which. And that is the hardest part of learning to write well.
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