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Goodreads asked Stephen Lycett:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Stephen Lycett Learn to become an analytical reader. Observe how good writers do things - change subject or direction (often hard to do unobtrusively); how often they use adjectives or, better still, how they avoid them; how they strike a balance between narrative and dialogue; how they vary their sentence types.

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