Hester Browne’s Writers Tip

Reading. You really can’t read enough – I hate being on tight deadlines because it plays havoc with my reading shelf! Read and read and read, and then write and write and write until you’ve found your own way of expressing what’s in your head. Then, read aloud what you’ve written – especially dialogue – to check that it’s what people would actually say in real life, rather than what you think they ought to say in books. Nothing will make you spot a cliche or a repeated word faster than reading it aloud.
Hester Browne