Goodreads asked Leslie R. Waggoner III:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Leslie R. Waggoner III If you think about writing, find a mentor you can trust. Understand what you want to write... for me it was 16 months into writing that I understood I never want to write a straight forward novel. I feel that people are much to complex to be simply angry or joyful. I also feel like Chekhov's gun is good for short stories but for an epic series it needs to be ignored. If you are writing for epic series... imagine your protagonist looking around... all the little things he sees... how much of it is wonderous to our world, but mundane in his.

Understand that you are neither as good as your best reviews, nor as bad as the worst reviews would lead you to believe.

Understand why you write... and keep doing it until you no longer want to... then do the next thing.

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