Goodreads asked Jennifer Willis:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jennifer Willis This is tough, and I'll give the advice I wish I could go back and give to my earlier self: You don't need anyone's permission to write or to experiment. You don't have to be afraid of writing or worry that you don't have a right to do it. When I go back and look at my earlier work, I can see in that stiff prose how nervous and restricted I was, because I hadn't yet gotten comfortable with what I was doing. That's a major piece of finding your voice as a writer, just understanding that an urge to write or to tell a story is the permission to do it.

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