Write like the authors you admire. Or like no-one’s reading.
“Study the authors you like and do what they do.”
My ex once told me this with the absolute certainty of someone who doesn’t quite understand what it is they’re asking.
As if I haven’t been doing it for most of my life! As if it didn’t take years, decades, to get brainworm like Catcher in the Rye and The Winter of our Discontent and East of Eden and Demon Box out of my system…
