Malorie Blackman advises budding authors to pick up on news stories, but Julia Donaldson warns of pitfalls – and Alan Moore says you should read terrible books as well as good onesThe key to being a good writer? It’s being a good reader, authors including Carol Ann Duffy and Alan Moore have said this World Book Day. However, commonly doled-out advice such as “write what you know” is “dreadful”, says Lee Child.Sharing advice and tips for budding writers, former poet laureate Duffy says that “one of the most important things you can do if you want to write a poem is read a poem”. Continue reading... Continue reading at 'The Guardian'
[ The Guardian | 2023-03-02 15:43:52 UTC ]