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As part of Asian American, Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander (AANHPI) Heritage Month in May, I was asked in an interview,
"What is the best advice you have received as a writer?" And my answer was,
"I received many dos and don'ts in the last couple of years.
I don’t care much about structure or plotting. I don’t like writing in a genre.
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