Goodreads asked Laura Kelly Robb:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Laura Kelly Robb A prof in college told us to only read the best books available. "You don't have time to waste," he said. Following his advice, I pick and choose what I read, but read a range of genres and read non-fiction as well. The more I read, the better I write English. The more I write, the more ideas I have for story content and story structure. So those are the two intellectual areas writers need to master: control over the language of the story-telling and the way the story unfolds, and I try to accomplish that by a lot of reading and writing. But I think that still leaves the non-intellectual part of being a writer which is grasping the emotional core of a story. Living with all one's senses attuned to what is going on around one is the only way I know to grow in that area.

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