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Goodreads asked Eric Shonkwiler:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Eric Shonkwiler Expect to write failures. Write bad stories, bad novels, bad poems, but write them. It took about 300,000 words of crap before I started to write anything worthwhile. You have to open the pipes a while before you can expect them to run pure.

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