Sage Ardman
The usual answer that people give to this question is, indeed, correct. If you want to write, you must read first.
When I started to write my first romance novel, I had never read one. So after knocking off a first draft and realizing that I was writing romance, I put down the keyboard and started to read. Fifty romance novels later, I was ready to finish writing my own.
By now, I've read nearly 200 romance novels. Each one teaches me something (although sometimes all I learn is that I shouldn't have read that book).
When I started to write my first romance novel, I had never read one. So after knocking off a first draft and realizing that I was writing romance, I put down the keyboard and started to read. Fifty romance novels later, I was ready to finish writing my own.
By now, I've read nearly 200 romance novels. Each one teaches me something (although sometimes all I learn is that I shouldn't have read that book).
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