Goodreads asked Stacey T. Hunt:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Stacey T. Hunt The very first step, and some would argue the most important one, is to write a book.
Seriously.
Write about something that speaks to your interests. Create characters who work through the kinds of issues you struggle with. Not necessarily someone with sickle cell anemia. That might be too exact. But you know what it’s like to feel pain. You know how it feels to have different challenges than your peers. You know how hard it is to stay strong when all you want to do is kick something and cry. So create a character who feels those things and then add a few things that you can’t relate to so you can have fun living as someone else for a while. That’s one of the best things about writing fiction. Your world, your rules.

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