Goodreads asked Terry Geo:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Terry Geo Practice. Just keep writing, every day if possible. Whether it's a long social media post or a blog or a short story or a poem - anything to keep honing your skills. The more you write, like anything, the better you will be at it.

When you come to write your first novel, take your time. It will seem daunting at first, you might leave it for a while and come back to it. That's fine, as long as you do come back to it. However long it takes, when you finish and you've typed THE END, that is not the end of the process. You now have to read it all back and check for mistakes. Does the story work, is the spelling and grammar all correct, does the pacing work? Once you're happy with it, give it to some close friends/family to read through it and give you notes. Once they're back, send it to an editor. Every author needs to do this because at some point, you will become word-blind to your own manuscript. Once all those processes are done and you're confident this is the very best work you could do - then it's time to publish!

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