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Goodreads asked Lynn Sholes:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Lynn Sholes Do your homework. Attend writers' conferences and attend as many panels as you can. Join writing critique groups. Join writer organizations. Study how a writer does something in text--something that moved you--something that made a scene vivid--the way an author structures his sentences or a single sentence--an author's choice of words. Think, why did he/she do it that way or use those words? What other choices did he/she have? And think, when you would use it in your writing. Read. Read. Read. Write. Write. Write.

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