Steal to Create
Find techniques from other artists and steal them. Try them yourself. Find ways people use language and try it yourself.
In stealing you find your own voice.
Austin-Kleon has a whole book about this.
Good artists copy, great artists steal — Pablo Pisasso
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Writers Need to Read
In the same way that visual artists need to be immersed in images, writers need to read and [[Read-Widely]].