Goodreads asked Matthew Caracciolo:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Matthew Caracciolo Read as a writer! If there's an author you particularly like and you want to emulate him/her, read a book of theirs and discern their strategies. Beyond the plot details, how is the author achieving their success? What are they doing with dialogue? Transitions? How long are their descriptions? How is the book, not necessarily the plot, constructed, you know? The more you can read a book like this, the better you will be able to put those strategies to work in your own writing.

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