Goodreads asked Jackie Fancher:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jackie Fancher When I first considered writing, I wrote an email to one of my favorite authors, Susan Elizabeth Phillips. Her advice: Just start writing! So I did. Pick up a pen and a legal pad and start jotting thoughts down. Name your characters. Give them personalities and some physical characteristics. Choose your location. Do research to make sure you don't send readers north on an east-west street. It may end up a great novel. Or it may just be practice. But just start. Something I wish I would have done is write a date on the pages as I developed ideas.

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