Goodreads asked Penelope Wright:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Penelope Wright Write a lot, whether you feel like it or not. Read a lot in your genre, and also outside your genre. You become a better writer when you absorb a lot of great writing as a reader. Meet other writers. Online is a great way to do it, so is in person through writing groups (most regions have a writer's association) and also conferences. I met my first agent through a writer friend of mine, we would have never met if I hadn't made that friend at a conference who then introduced us.

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