…Susan Toy outlines 10 Ways To Kill Your Writing… PART FIVE…

Tricia Drammeh, Author:

It’s part five of Susan Toy’s feature on Seumas’s blog. I love #13! Print it out. Post it on your wall. This is fantastic, amazing, and helpful advice.

Originally posted on Seumas Gallacher:

…I’m delighted to run a five-days consecutive series of posts from my terrific pal, Author, Susan Toy, for every author to enjoy and prob’ly learn lots from… here’s PART FIVE :

10 Ways to Kill Your Writing

This 5-part article is from a talk I gave at the Calgary Public Library Writers’ Weekend Feb. 4, 2012.

Thanks to all of you for reading this series that is very kindly being hosted by the ONE, the ONLY, SEUMAS GALLACHER!

  Part 5  

Stop reading

 And this is related to Way #3 – Copy others and don’t search for and develop your own voice.

Do not stop reading for fear you’ll copy others.

Continue reading and read widely and deeply, and well outside your genre or style, so that you may learn how to write well. Read bad writing as well as the award-winning books, so you may learn…

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