Harry Shannon’s Advice to Writers.

Write a lot. Read even more. Read widely, biographies and books out of your favorite genre. Value constructive criticism, even when it stings, and especially when it comes from an editor or a well intentioned colleague. It takes a lot of focus and effort to suggest specific changes in a work, the same kind of effort it takes to write. That dedication deserves to be taken seriously. We learn to write by writing, and no one is ever through learning. You may as well be dead.

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