Goodreads asked Ashley Wilda:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Ashley Wilda Read a lot! Like a lot a lot. And any and every genre. Also, "write what you know," but not in the way most people mean it. Write about the EMOTIONS you know. Write fantasy or scifi or the most weird fantastical thing you can think of - it doesn't have to be something you've experienced in real life. But write about YOUR emotional truth. Better yet, find a question you have about the world, and explore it in writing. Don't come up with the answer ahead of time. See where the story takes you. That's the most authentic kind of writing.

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