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Goodreads asked Jay Smith:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jay Smith Live a life. Explore. Fail. Struggle and fail again. Know what it is like the be hurt and hate and feel all the negative things people tell you to avoid. Make a mistake and hit a wall. Then use that pain in your fiction. Your pain and conflict are the core of drama.

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