Goodreads asked Michelle Mars:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Michelle Mars I messed with my first book's first few chapters for so long and the best advice I received was to finish the damn book. Once you have the whole story, you can change things, cut things, edit things, but until you know what the whole thing looks like, you will continue to fiddle with something that may not even make the cut. (This is from personal experience. The original beginning first chapter for my debut was cut once I saw how it all went together. Found a better starting point.)

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