Goodreads asked Rich Shapero:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Rich Shapero For me, ideas are paramount. I don’t mean intellectual constructs. I mean feelings and intuitions that take a great effort to understand and to surface into consciousness. We all have important understandings—perceptions that are acquired at high personal cost. For me, this is the reason to write. My advice would be to look for and find that idea. Let it inspire and motivate your writing. Writing is communication, so the real question is: what do you have that is so worth communicating that it merits the effort it will take to articulate it and share it?

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