How to build your own personal literary canon (and why)

An easy bit of advice for authors — and one familiar to you, probably — is to read other authors.

Writer’s Digest editor Moriah Richard has a more specific take on that tip.

She suggests that writers build their own personal canons, which may or may not include what academia considers the classics.

Read more about how to build your personal literary canon and why you should at Writer’s Digest.

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