Goodreads asked Adam Oster:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Adam Oster The best piece of advice I can give is simply to write. One of the biggest things that keep folks from actually following through on becoming a writer is that they don't actually write. I know for myself I spent years thinking about the stories I wanted to tell, but being absolutely frightened about actually putting the words to the page. Once I did, it was like a whole new world was put in front of me.

But that's not it. To be a writer, you have to force yourself to write. Daily, if possible. There will be more than your share of days in which writing feels as though it is the most impossible task ever laid out in front of you. If you want to be a writer, writing needs to be a part of you, a piece of your routine, something that you can't live without...which, you'll find easily, is probably the case.

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