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Goodreads asked Sheldon Charles:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Sheldon Charles Always be writing something. Write something every day. Start with maybe 250 to 500 words and then gradually grow to where you're writing a thousand words a day. As with anything, practice makes you better at it. Continually putting your thoughts on paper forces you to think about things differently because you would start boring yourself if you were always writing about the same thing.

I remember a high school English teacher that used to require a 500-word essay every Friday. Everyone moaned and groaned at having to write what seemed like a massive amount of words once a week. But it was by doing the assignment that I went from dreading it to looking forward to it. If you start writing daily, eventually It will become less something you think about and more something you look forward to.

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