Goodreads asked Jeanne Felfe:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jeanne Felfe Allow yourself to write badly. If you get caught up in making in perfect from the get-go, you'll get stuck and perhaps never finish a piece. There's a thought among writers that anything can be fixed once written, but if nothing is written it can't be fixed.

So bottom line - write, a lot. And READ a lot... not only in the genre(s) you think you'll write in, but in genres removed from what you normally read. You need to read a broad spectrum of writing in order to fully understand pacing, dialogue, plot, character development, etc.

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