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Goodreads asked Janie Dempsey Watts:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Janie Dempsey Watts Start writing down your story ideas in a little notebook you carry at all times. Keep building the story from these notes. Pretty soon, pieces of information on your topic seem to come into your field--either through observations or research. Keep thinking, "what if?"

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