Goodreads asked Alan Bayles:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Alan Bayles The only advice I can offer is if you have an idea and want to write, just do it. I spent years thinking I wasn't good enough to write a book, that I needed to be highly educated to write a story.

Don't let anybody put you off. If you have an idea of a story, just go ahead and write. Hopefully it grow into something.

Self-doubt can be a writers biggest hurdle, don't let it control you like it did to me. So long as you have confidence in yourself and what you are writing, you have already made it past the first hurdle.

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