Goodreads asked Gary F. Bengier:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Gary F. Bengier My general advice is “Sit down in your chair and write.” The particular advice is to create some tracking method—maybe a spreadsheet with dates and hours spent writing—that you fill in at the end of each day, each month, each quarter-year. That which is measured is what gets done. That discipline will help you develop a writing habit. From measurement, you can begin to see progress toward your goal, because it will be obvious how long it will take to finish your novel.

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