Edited by Jonathan Vernon, Wednesday, 19 Sept 2012, 07:19
'The nearest to a panacea is the beginner's persistent reading aloud of his work, reading it softly without listeners and without oratory; reading it, if he can, as intently, as dispassionately, as a doctor fingers down the verterbrae of the spine in search of injury'. (Mirrielees, Story Writing 1929:216)
On how to write - convincingly