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What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Rett MacPherson A very broad question. If you mean, what is my advice to you on finding an agent or getting published, that would take more space than I have here. If you're talking about advice on the physical act of writing, my advice is to read. And then write. Carry a notebook and pen with you when you go places. Write down thoughts that come to you. Sometimes I write down snippets of dialogue that belong to characters I've not even named yet. I see so many people in the park or in restaurants just scanning their phones. I'm the dinosaur in the corner with a book, reading. Or a notebook, writing. Even if I do get ketchup on the pages.
Oh, and turn off the television and turn off the computer. Biggest time suckers in the universe. (I try to schedule my TV and computer time so that I still stay connected, but so that neither control my life.)

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