Goodreads asked Sheryl Monks:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Sheryl Monks Read the best work in your genre. Let it seep deeply into your pores. Study the craft of writing to whatever extent you can. But always trust your intuition above all else. Your deepest intuition knows the story you're meant to tell. Don't get in its way. Put publishing far out of your mind. Allow yourself the gift of time it takes to learn what it is you are meant to write. Don't put the burden of publishing on yourself too early. Luxuriate in the writing itself.

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