Rosemary Cole
There appear to be three kinds of aspiring fiction authors: the first kind lacks the imagination for good ideas, but they are excellent at writing. The second kind have terrific ideas, but can't write very well. The third kind is good at both ideas and writing. To be a novelist, it's best to be the third kind. You can still make it as the second kind, but you have to work, work, work at it. Study grammar, expand your vocabulary, practice. The best prose uses few words to get a powerful meaning across, but those words must be exactly the right ones. Read a lot, especially in the genre in which you want to write. How-to books actually do help a lot, and critique partners are invaluable.
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Your writing style and ideas about postapocalyptic world remind me very famous in Soviet Union fiction authors Arkady and Boris Strugatsky. Here is their book: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/16736014-prisoners-of-power I think they have very distinctive style of narrative. And the atmosphere in your book amazingly reminded me their books. My question is: where do you get the inspiration for your ideas?
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