Goodreads asked Jen Blood:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jen Blood Live your life, read everything, and write it all down. The two best resources you can have at your disposal are life experience and a diverse knowledge of great (and not-so-great) literature. Travel. Pursue other interests. Master other skills. Writers who spend their whole lives just writing? Frankly... Not that interesting. Once you get to that part of life where you're actively pursuing a writing career, then it's important to keep your butt in the chair x-number of hours a day (you decide the number, and stick to it) and get those words out... But if you're in your teens or twenties and still figuring things out, don't close yourself off to the world around you in the interest of a fiction career. Fiction thrives on life experience.

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