Goodreads asked Elizabeth Lennox:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Elizabeth Lennox I have several hopeful writers who have contacted me over the past few years and my advice is always to just write. So many people want to write, but they don’t make the time for it. If you want to be a writer, the best thing to do is to just sit down and do it. It can be on paper or on a computer, but lose yourself in the characters, in the plot and build on it.
If you find that you can’t stop writing, I know that you will eventually become a successful writer. Just believe in yourself.
Another piece of advice, don’t push a bad story. Every once in a while, I get bogged down in a plot and I’m not sure where it might go. Or even if it is a good plot. If this happens, put the book aside and start another story. If the first book is good, you’ll come back to it. The plot and the characters will nag in your brain and force you to finish it. But if it is a bad story (and I’ve started many of those!) it will drift away and the new plot will take over.
The only thing an aspiring writer should not do is give up. Just keep on writing. Try different genres, different kinds of characters, different plots. Eventually, one of your attempts will germinate and become your obsession.

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