If you could give any advice to someone starting out in the writing world what would it be?
Write, write, write. Keep practicing. There’s advice like that sprinkled all thorough this AMA. Like here .
Really, just keep at it. Practice, practice, practice. Second, learn the business. If you intend to self publish, learn the real ins and outs of it. Don’t just do it. If you intend to traditionally publish, learn not just the publishers, but the names of the editors at the publishing houses and what they personally worked on. (Even better, authors they discovered.)
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