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Goodreads asked Robert P. Rowe:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Robert P. Rowe Read.

Read in your genre. Read as much as you can. While you are reading pay attention to the patterns, formulas and similarities between the stories. All ideas are built off from other ideas. Many ideas are universal constants.

Then take the next step--write.

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