M. Allen Cunningham
Read, read, read. Find writers whose work you respond to strongly at some cellular level, writers whose work makes you want to write. Then read everything you can read by those authors, studying the work closely. That means copying out lengthy passages by hand, perhaps committing them to memory, absorbing them into your writerly bones. This practice will take you far.
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