Goodreads asked Matt Cary Williams:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Matt Cary Williams Writing your first draft? Well. . .then . . .write like a deranged madman, stay up for weeks on end drinking whiskey, eating nothing but cheese on crackers and living with the lights switched off. When it's all said and done, the final sentence in place, and finally your staring at your mind splurged across stacks of garbled pages of devoted mindlessness. . .you head off and take a break, eat a Kit-Kat, maybe. Then, you come back, after reevaluating your life, of course, and edit like a well-engineered professional.

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