C.W. March
The best way to get better at writing is to write. The more you write, the better you'll get at recognizing what you're doing in the moment.
Get an editor - even if it's just a friend you trust and like to talk to - so that you have someone who can read through the things you wrote. Your own understanding of how a scene reads is never going to be the same as an outside perspective, because you as the author have insights that your audience cannot. Having an outside perspective to tell you how something looks to a reader without those insights is vital to ensuring that the story you actually tell is the one you want.
Get an editor - even if it's just a friend you trust and like to talk to - so that you have someone who can read through the things you wrote. Your own understanding of how a scene reads is never going to be the same as an outside perspective, because you as the author have insights that your audience cannot. Having an outside perspective to tell you how something looks to a reader without those insights is vital to ensuring that the story you actually tell is the one you want.
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