The past is not dead; it is not even past.
The secret of theory is that truth does not exist.
Read, read, read. Read everything — trash, classics, good and bad, and see how they do it. Just like a carpenter who works as an apprentice and studies the master. Read! You'll absorb it. Then write. If it's good, you'll find out. If it's not, throw it out of the window.
In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.