Goodreads asked Annette Laing:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Annette Laing There is no such thing as an aspiring writer. Either you think like a writer all the time, and hit the keyboard as the muse takes you, or you're simply not a writer. Wanting to get published is not the same thing as writing, and an awful lot of angst and colossal waste of energy is expended by people who want to call themselves writers, while never once actually writing something. Just do it. You don't have to write daily, or even often, but once you start, you won't be able to stop.

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