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A Goodreads user asked Alice Oseman:

I really want to write something but the problem is that I want to write too many things. And I've started writing too many things already. My mum says I should just focus on one story at a time but I keep getting new ideas and I feel like if I don't write all of them I'll never get round to writing them. Do you have any advice?

Alice Oseman Writing and finishing a book does take a lot of resilience and determination. You've got to have that passion and love for it, of course, but to actually finish it requires hard work and perseverance. If you give up as soon as you get slightly bored, you'll never finish writing a book. So all I can really say to you is that if you want to finish writing a book, you need to buckle down and not give up. And that takes effort. And it can be annoying at times. But if you keep that dream of having a full, finished book in your hands at the end of it in your mind, hopefully that should keep you going. Good luck!

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