Be a better writer by reading something BAD.
One of my professors in college (Steve Bauer, Constance Pierce, Kay Sloan, Daniel Keyes, or Chris Tilghman) said something to the effect that you can learn much more from a poorly written novel than you can from the masters. I guess the upshot is you can SEE what they've done wrong & how to fix it...and avoid it yourself.
As a book reviewer, I have to say that suffering through some of the things I have had to read should have made me a bestselling author by now! You've heard me talk about the "eye bleeders" here before...anyhoo, I wrote a blog entry for DML about it & you can find it here:
http://daytonmetrolibrary.blogspot.com/2009/01/learn-from-less-than-perfect.html
I have only been hunted down by two authors I have said negative things about (one in a review and one on Goodreads) But I have been quoted on tons of book covers (as I've said in my posts on blurbing) & been thanked for saying nice things by many more...a few authors have even read my reviews and SENT me their books to review. THAT'S neat.
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