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Goodreads asked Nick Alimonos:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Nick Alimonos Writing is an art form. Like painting or playing a musical instrument, to be truly great takes time and dedication. This means that the first story you write isn't going to be very good, and if you can't write a decent short story, your first novel will be even worse. If you truly, sincerely want your book to sit on the shelf with Rowling and Martin and King, you will need to do what they did. You will need to shelve that first novel and write another, and then a second, and then a third.

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