Goodreads asked Jack Ewing:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jack Ewing Get as much life experience as you can. I have known a lot of young people who took creative writing in college and started working on novels right after graduation. That worked for F. Scott Fitzgerald but not many others (and Fitzgerald burned out quickly). Working as a journalist is great preparation because you meet a great variety of people and learn about a lot of different things. At some point, it gels into a book.

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