But Price digs into his personal experience to inform students that it takes more than skill to create quality fiction. If you can find that story, the story that made you want to be a writer in the first place, it will all come together. I've made every mistake that they make, and I make them now. I've just got a little more experience under my belt, that's all. You never learn how to write a book, I tell them.
Every book is different.
Then I stopped writing for eight years.