"Don’t compare yourself to other writers or to their word counts. Your process is your own and no one..."

“Don’t compare yourself to other writers or to their word counts. Your process is your own and no one has the winning formula. Writing is just sitting down and doing the work.”

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Lilliam Rivera is an award-winning writer and author of the young adult novels Dealing in Dreams and The Education of Margot Sanchez, both from Simon & Schuster and available now in bookstores everywhere. Her work has appeared in Elle, Los Angeles Times, Tin House, and The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, to name a few. Lilliam lives in Los Angeles. Follow @lilliamr on Twitter.

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