Goodreads asked Dean P. Turnbloom:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Dean P. Turnbloom I would encourage them to do what I did, take an idea from scratch and work at it until you have a complete story, start to finish. Chances are you won't have a novel yet, but in the process of writing new ideas are germinated and a second time through you can see different angles and separate paths to explore. That is what makes writing so wonderful, the ability to explore and use those that work, discarding the paths that don't. The important thing is to do. As Yoda said, there is no try...

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