Shay Ray Stevens
1. Stop referring to yourself as an "aspiring writer". You're either writing or you're not. There's no aspiring to it.
2. If you feel the need to write, do it! But realize that once you publish a book, you've entered a business. The challenge lies in finding the balance between the artsy soul of writing and the business that gets your work out there.
3. Writing comes from life. Don't hyper-focus so much on your writing that you forget to live. Nothing good ever came from staring at a screen 24 hours a day.
2. If you feel the need to write, do it! But realize that once you publish a book, you've entered a business. The challenge lies in finding the balance between the artsy soul of writing and the business that gets your work out there.
3. Writing comes from life. Don't hyper-focus so much on your writing that you forget to live. Nothing good ever came from staring at a screen 24 hours a day.
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