Aaron Hamburger
Read, read, and read. Read widely, not just in your preferred genre and not just texts by authors whose life experiences mirror yours. Brush up on the fundamentals of composition time and again. Write as often as you can. And live as fully as you can with eyes, ears, mouths, noses, and fingers open to the world of the senses. You never know what details of the experience you're living now you'll want to draw on later when you're writing a scene.
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I'm writing a historical fiction novel about my grandfather, who in 1918 immigrated to Havana from Colfax, WA, so he could live in Cuba long enough (6 months) to get a Cuban visa to work as a pineapple farm supervisor in Mexico during the Mexican Revolution (a time when Americans weren't welcome). How difficult was it for your grandmother to obtain a Cuban residency visa and how long was she allowed to live in Cuba?
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