Joel Arnold
Get it out on paper (or on the keyboard) and don't worry about it being perfect. Your writing will never be perfect, and striving for perfection in a first draft will make it so that you never finish the thing.
Read a lot.
Go to some writer conventions just to see that there are other like-minded folks out there and that you are not alone.
Write some more.
Read a lot.
Go to some writer conventions just to see that there are other like-minded folks out there and that you are not alone.
Write some more.
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