Goodreads asked S. Lee Benedict:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

S. Lee Benedict The best advice I can offer is to write without self-editing at first. Just put words on the page. It doesn't matter whether its any good or not in the beginning. Nobody's first draft is very good. I found that the key for me to finishing my first book was to ignore that voice that told me that word wasn't a good choice or this scene doesn't make any sense or doesn't belong. When writing a first draft, I never go back and edit anything, not until it's all on the page. What really helped me with this was NaNoWriMo. Because the goal is to write 50k words in one month, it really forces you to just keep writing like a train barreling through a snow storm. I put blinders on and just wrote and came out with something that was workable.

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