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Goodreads asked Ken Poyner:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Ken Poyner Read. Read both in your genre, and outside of your genre. Good non-fiction may inspire poetry. Good poetry may inspire fiction. Do not copy your favorite authors, but learn from them. Look into the conversation they are dragging you into.

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