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This post forms part of the blog tour to help promote the forthcoming novel The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne by Jonathan Stroud.
Jonathan has kindly shared with us 5 tips for better writing. They’re so good, I’m tempted to stop what I’m doing and start writing a novel right now. Don’t forget to check out my full review of The Outlaws Scarlett and Browne. The book really is excellent.
Jonathan Stroud’s 5 Writing Tips
Every writer may have more or less the same objective-to create an interesting and readable text-but each one approaches the job in their own unique way. This means that any tips or advice on writing can only be a rough guide, an overview of what works for this particular person. In fact, not even quite that, because every book is different too, and may need its own particular treatment, so even the experienced writer is in the position, at the start of any project, of not knowing whether the techniques that worked before will do so again. But all is not lost, because this slightly uncomfortable fact gives rise to the first of my five tips…
