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Goodreads asked Bridget E. Baker:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Bridget E. Baker Read Larry Brooks Story Engineering, or Save the Cat.

Then read Story by Robert McKee.

Then read Story Genius by Lisa Cron.

Then start writing. Then read the second and third again and revise.

Then read Renni Brown's Self Editing for Fiction Writers. Edit and then edit and then edit again.

Then start looking for an agent or looking into self publishing. ;)

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