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Goodreads asked W. Franklin Lattimore:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

W. Franklin Lattimore When you begin to write, push through to the end. Whether you think it's worthy of others reading or not, it's your first book, and that is worth the effort in and of itself. Your first book is about effort and bulldog tenacity. It proves that you've got what it takes to take a story from beginning to end. Whether it's a short story or a full-blown novel, your dogged determination to finish it is going to put you into the ranks of the very few who qualify to be called authors.

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