Goodreads asked Jim Tilley:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jim Tilley Remember to read your work out loud. Find an empty room and walk around in it reading selections from your manuscript. If they don't sound right, if they bore you because you'd rather skip ahead to a particular narrative or scene or dialogue, then you've learned something. That you must revise, revise, revise. Be willing to throw out most of your writing until you find the stuff that sounds right.

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