Goodreads asked R.J. Goldman:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

R.J. Goldman I used to do NaNoWriMo, and my favorite technique I learned from that was to... just write. “Draft zero” of the climax of “Nothing” was basically a stream-of-consciousness, thousand-word paragraph with minimal punctuation. It’s so much easier to edit that into something readable than it is to write from scratch! My favorite phrase is “better than zero” — if you just wrote one word today, that’s one more word than you had yesterday.

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