Authors That'll Make You A Better Writer

Have you ever wanted to take the best parts of authors and throw them together to make your ultimate novelist? Today we take inspiration from Dr Frankenstein himself to choose authors based on simple criteria: Person, Plot, Place, and Prose.

Jump around our recommendations:

00:00 Intro
00:26 Author #1 skilled with "People"
01:06 Author #2 skilled with "People"
01:51 Author #3 skilled with "Plot"
02:32 Author #4 skilled with "Plot"
03:23 Author #5 skilled with "Place"
04:24 Author #6 skilled with "Place"
05:20 Author #7 skilled with "Prose"
06:39 Author #8 Skilled with "Prose"
08:12 Closing Thoughts

Do you agree with our choices? What authors have inspired you to put pen to paper?

Honorable mentions also worth checking out based on interest:

Michael Crichton - plots, great ideas

Gene Wolfe - prose, mysterious and complex

Frank Herbert - place, deep world to get lost in

As always, if you’d like your work critiqued, submit it at bt-henderson.com