Goodreads asked Michael Winston:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Michael Winston Just start writing. Since I write historical fiction I at least have an outline already prepared from my research that I more or less have to follow. Other than that I try not to plan too far ahead and let the story write itself. Sometimes characters and interesting conversations and events and action come out of nowhere and add to the story. I know that sounds esoteric, but I rely a great deal on faith that the story will unfold somehow and that it will be a good and interesting material. It is almost as if the story is being passed to me from some other mysterious source. That faith never lets me down.

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