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Goodreads asked Cheryl MacDonald:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Cheryl MacDonald Read. Everything you can get your hands on - cereal boxes, instruction manuals, good, bad and indifferent prose, fiction or non-fiction, books that appeal to you and, just for the sake of learning, books that don't. Unless you read voraciously, you cannot develop any kind of appreciation for the printed word and how its appearance on the page (or screen) impacts the reader. Then write all you can.

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