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Goodreads asked Steve Abbott:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Steve Abbott Learn structure. If you're a genre writer, read every book in that genre you can. Know the conventions of the genre and what scenes are expected by the reader.

Outline. It's easier for a story to fail in three pages than three hundred.

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