Goodreads asked Jay Pelchen:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jay Pelchen Break the process down! Writing an entire book seems like a gargantuan task but breaking it down into more manageable steps makes the whole process less daunting. I shared my "Engineers Approach to Writing" on Reddit, showing how I: started with a single paragraph capturing the idea; turned that into an A4 page; turned that into a sentence for each chapter; then created a 500 word summary for each chapter. Turning that 20,000 word summary of the entire book into a 120,000 word novel sounds hard but turning 500 words into 2500 words sounds (and was) much more achievable.

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