Goodreads asked Aleson Alexander:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Aleson Alexander Get someone to read your work. Someone who's going to be honest and not just be nice to you. When the story's in your head and you look at it and see a movie playing in your mind's eye, you miss things, don't communicate them correctly, or assume that everyone sees the same mental movie that you do. Get someone to read it and tell you what doesn't make sense, what seems to have things left out, the places where you started to say one thing, then changed your mind mid-stream and didn't tidy up.

If this is what you love to do, don't give up. It doesn't matter if it seems like no one else in the world likes what you have to say, say it anyway. Don't stop saying it. It'll happen. Slowly, but it'll happen.

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