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Goodreads asked Suzanne Gates:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Suzanne Gates Perhaps some day I'll have meaty advice for aspiring writers, but for now, since I still feel like an aspiring writer myself, I'll have to take my own advice. And that advice is: Write it anyway.

I stopped myself for so long from writing this, that, and the other because I didn't think it would be good enough, deep enough, sparkling enough. The result? Nothing. So now on days when I know that what I'm writing is complete manure, I write it anyway. I guess since I love to garden, I know the secret about manure. Write it anyway. See? I'm telling myself this right now.

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