Goodreads asked John Clarkson:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

John Clarkson I know it sounds patronizing/obvious, but essentially the advice is -- write. Set a quota. Get it done. Keep going. See what you have. Set another quota for pages you want to edit every day. Fix it, polish it, keep going. Otherwise, nothing will happen. Once you done the above, you can get into the more detailed "advice". This is based on that word "aspiring". If you're aspiring to get published, to improve, to get on the best sellers list...etc. then you already are a writer.

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