Goodreads asked Greg Fultz:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Greg Fultz Personally, I've always been grammatically challenged. I'm not a english major nor was I ever any good at english classes or writing for that matter but I did always have ideas in my head. I wanted to put them to paper but I had no skills or knowledge how to write unless it was just a big wall of text without any punctuation or proper grammar. So I never did any writing except for a blog that nobody wanted to read because it made their eyes bleed LOL.

Then I started getting involved with other blogging groups and writing communities and I saw the error in my ways and I started to put effort in my writing. It still wasn't perfect and isn't perfect now but I thought to myself after getting motivated by other authors in NanoWriMo that I can do this too!

So I did. NanoWriMo principal is to just write 1667 words a day. no prep, no thought behind it, just write. I loved that simple principal. It took a lot of the stress behind writing of my shoulders.

At the end I had a 50,000 word novel. My advice to any aspiring writer is this... IF I can do it You Can Too!

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