Goodreads asked Tom Ang:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Tom Ang Listen to the music of the words. Let me tell you a story. When I worked on magazine, we were sometimes short of readers' letters to publish. So we'd make them up. One of us editors would take turns each month. The trick was to write a letter than an ordinary reader would. And the test was whether one editor could spot the fake letters written by the other editor. Neither of us could do it! The other could always spot something written by another professional. And was because the rhythm, the pulse ... something would always give it away.
So: I advise you to listen to you words; do not merely write them.

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