Goodreads asked Deb Davies:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Deb Davies Obviously, read. For me, it helps to read a wide range of books, from poetry (mostly contemporary black women's writing) to YA novels, and some nonfiction, including books about topics I'm writing about. It helps to have a writers' group. AND--don't be too hard on yourself. Everyone has times when they go blank, or hate what they've done, or have to massively revise. Put your writing away for a week, or even a lot longer, and when you go back, you'll have a sense of what worked.

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