How to increment array of pointers to strings

I am trying to increment the pointer of this array, similar to
incrementing *argv[]:
*++argv
printf("%s\n", *argv); /* now prints the arg at argv[1]; */
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code:
char *args[8];
args[0] = "x";
args[1] = "y";
args[2] = "z";

/* if i use:
args++; or
*args++;
i get error:
xxx.c:18: error: wrong type argument to increment
*/
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how can i increment the pointer and print the contents of the current
location of it?

Thanks

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