by Will Viharo
When aspiring writers ask me for advice – which isn’t often – I normally offer two words of hard earned wisdom: “Quit now.” If they ignore me and keep writing anyway, that means they share my natural affliction and it doesn’t matter what I say or anyone says, for that matter. But there are a lot more useful (and less snarky) pieces of real experience shared and ignored on a regular basis, often to the fledgling author’s peril… |