Goodreads asked Cathy Hird:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Cathy Hird Write every day. Don't wait for the story to be whole in your head, or the idea to be perfect. Write what you are thinking, imagining. Write character sketches. Write a setting. Something. From time to time, reread these jottings and see which are worth working on more. Writing is a craft that takes practice so even the scribbles that no one else every sees are building blocks for your poems, stories, masterpiece novels, memoire....

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