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What advice would you give to kids who are interested in making a career in writing, how to get started, even at an early age?

Read, find out what you like to read, and try to figure out what it is about it that makes you like it. And the best advice I can give is what they don't like hearing, and that is you need to rewrite. I understand; I used to hate rewriting when I was their age. But my first drafts are absolutely awful. I would be embarrassed to show them to anyone. It's not until I start really knowing the story, rewriting it to make it better, that it turns into something.