Goodreads asked Rebecca Laffar-Smith:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Rebecca Laffar-Smith The best advice I have is to earn your stripes by writing, a LOT. The more you write and finish, even if the books are bad and you think they can't be salvaged, the more you'll learn through the process. In fact, writing complete manuscripts is a much more effective way to learn the craft than to labour over a single manuscript attempted to perfect it. So write a lot, fail often, and you'll be amazed how frequently you write well even if in the moment you feel like everything you write is terrible. So yes, my advice for aspiring writers is rather cliché but it is to write, and write a lot. Quantity over quality; because everything can be fixed in edits except a blank page.

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