Goodreads asked Ralph Rotten:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Ralph Rotten A lot of writers write that first book and feel this rush to publish the thing. The truth is that the first 200,000 words are just practice. Really, until you have written 200k you have simply not mastered the basic skills to compete in the modern literary marketplace. So if you want to be a writer, then write, and write a lot. Olympians practice all day to master their craft, and being an author is no different.

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