AUTHOR TAKEOVER with Andrew Joyce

The Best Writing Advice You’ll Ever Get

There is bit of advice that I have for aspiring authors. And that is, if you want to write well, you must read. Reading to a writer is as medical school is to a doctor, as physical training is to an athlete, as breathing is to life. Think of reading books as taking a writing course. I would suggest reading the classics: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, and, of course, Steinbeck, to name but a few. These three authors made up their own rules. Hemingway couldn’t get published at first because his writing was so different from the writing that preceded him. Thus, my first bit of advice is to read. My second: don’t pay too much attention to the “rules” of writing. And my third, never, ever, ever respond to a bad review.

Thank you for listening to my morning rant,

Andrew Joyce