One of the best pieces of advice I've read/been told (by Steven Brust) to help get started writing was something along the lines of: "Write what seems cool to you." He of course went into more detail and said it more elegantly but ya, something just clicked when I read his advice. I got into several hundred novel pages before some medical stuff hit, and I had to stop writing sadly. I hope to take it up again someday and it is my goal to be published (self-publish if I need to.) Well technically I already am published, but I don't count my poetry for some self-deprecating reason.
