on Writers Helping Writers:

We all know that as writers we should be reading a lot. It’s one of the best ways to learn the craft, and Stephen King’s quote on the topic is legendary: “If you don’t have time to read, you don’t have the time (or the tools) to write.”

While it’s great to beat your annual Goodreads challenge, quantity is not the only factor. How we read is at least as important. One effective way of learning the craft of writing from published novels is to do an exercise that exposes their skeletons.

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