Goodreads asked Lauren Ho:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Lauren Ho First: Get your hands on a copy of Strunk and White's the Elements of Style. Read it. Read it again. Make love while reading it. OK, maybe not while reading it. But read it after you're done, at very least.

Second: Start writing. Pick a topic and just put words down on paper/screen. Join a writer's group if you like doing it in a group—writing, that is. Don't take a dump where you eat.

Third: Cultivate a thick skin. Do something that scares you (something legal, please), preferably in front of others. LEGAL STUFF ONLY PLEASE I MUST EMPHASIZE. The reason you need to cultivate a thick skin is so you can start showing people your writing, which is essentially fragments of your soul. It's all very personal. And someone's bound to not like the stuff you've written. So start cultivating that thick, thick skin. It's the reasons why I like singing in public. While I jog/walk. It freaks out the neighbours but hey, I want to keep the property prices in my area low so I can encourage other creatives to move in, a sort of reverse gentrification. I'm generous like that.

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