I’ve been writing - well - everybody ‘writes’, but I’ve been writing writing for a little over a year now. And one thing I remember being worried about when sitting down in front of the keyboard as a ‘writer’ for the first time, was style. As in, “How do I develop my own style?”

I think it’s hard for new writers to imagine they could actually have their own unique style because there’s already a daunting number of both professional and non-professional writers out there staking their claim in stylistic real-estate, so-to-speak. It ’s hard to believe there can be room for a new writer; hard to believe they might actually have something new and valuable to bring to such a saturated and sometimes elitist craft. 

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