Five pieces of advice for aspiring authors

Goodreads recently prompted me to share some advice about writing to aspiringauthors. Although Ido not write fiction, I have been a nonfiction writerfor years as a journalist (1994-2010), blogger (2002-present), and author of“how to”books (2012-present). I am going to share five pieces of advice for aspiring authors, which may be useful to fiction writers as well as nonfiction authors.

Make time to write. It doesn’t have to be long–an hour in the evening two or three times per week is fine–b...