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Goodreads asked Mark Swain:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Mark Swain Start work. Read. Forget what you're going to call yourself. Forget logos. Forget book covers and profile photos. Forget what you will do when you're famous. Forget how or why you will do it all. Just start work.

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