Notes from an interview - 1
10.) What’s your best advice for aspiring writers?
Stop aspiring and just write. It doesn’t require anything, anyone, or any reason. It doesn’t need a direction or a purpose or a plan, it doesn’t need skill and you sure as hell don’t need many tools. Writers write because they have to, because a part of them dies inside if they don’t. They spatter words on a page like a hasty bloodletting. It doesn’t matter if that work goes anywhere. Don’t worry about success or marketability or skill or anything.
Just do it because it feels right. The rest can slide into place once you start charging forward, pen in hand or keyboard at your fingertips.
Write first, worry about it later.
Seriously, gin helps for the latter.
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