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Goodreads asked C. Robert Cales:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

C. Robert Cales Find you passion and write about it. Find a couple masters of your passion and study their works with wild abandon. Create you masterpiece, but…

Be cautious. The dark waters of publishing are infested with predators. Go ahead, wade in, but watch for something breaking the surface of the water, something like the dorsal fin of a shark. The dorsal fin of these predators looks like this:
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Above all have patience. Without patience the writing craft will chew you up and spit you out.

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