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Goodreads asked Rachel Vail:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Rachel Vail Read, read, read. Also: eavesdrop. Pay attention to everything going on around you: how people reshuffle when somebody gets onto an elevator, what different people do when somebody says something rude, what you clench when you feel tense. And then write it all down.

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