Goodreads asked Nicholas McIntire:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Nicholas McIntire This isn't meant to sound flip or obvious, but the best advice I could give is to write. And here's what I mean. I wrote a series of 11 fifty-page novellas before I wrote my first 500+ page novel, but when I wrote that novel, it happened organically. And it couldn't have happened (at least for me) without the experience I gained from writing those shorter pieces. Just as every visual artist is different, so is just about every writer I've come across. No one's going to have the same path from start to finish, and it's entirely possible that the first couple of things you write are going to be terrible. Mine certainly were. But I didn't set my expectations too high, and I learned what did and didn't work for me.

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