Dan

Dan asked Mark Lawrence:

Yo Miggity Mark, What would you say to an aspiring author who knows that their prose sucks? Was the development of your prose and style a conscious effort? Peace, DFO

Mark Lawrence I'd tell them to write an awesome story. Most readers don't really care about prose - it's mainly us writers who do that. Many of the world's most successful authors have very pedestrian prose but are fantastic storytellers.

I don't think anyone makes a conscious effort to develop a style ... just an effort to write something they're happy with. I wrote poetry before I wrote stories. That may be a factor in the way I write now.

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