Writing Advice: Take It One Book at a Time

About four years ago, I heard a piece of writing advice that has stayed with me ever since. I first wrote about this back when I was haunting HubPages, but I think this is still valid advice, and wanted to share it here as well. It has nothing to do with style, or grammar, or plot, or character development. It has everything to do with the writing process as a whole, though.

Theadvice was this: don’t read more than one book at a time if you’re trying to write a story.

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