Goodreads asked Clive Warner:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Clive Warner It's not easy to write your first novel. Most first novels are pretty awful. I joined a critique group and spent three years (!) learning such things as how to properly signal to the reader that a shift in viewpoint is taking place (e.g. in a third-person narrative), how to write using active verbs rather than passive voice, and so on. It was invaluable. At the same time, however, we need to be able to turn off the "inner censor" and write what we want (need) to write, regardless.

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