Read aggressively, read broadly, try to figure out how the writers you admire pull off their tricks. This will help you more than any workshop or MFA program, but more importantly it will fill you with the love for this stuff you absolutely must have in order to endure the bullshit
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normal reedus
you always see people saying that there's no shortcut to becoming a good writer, you just have to write, and that's absolutely true. but there is another thing you could be doing and that's read as much as possible.
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