Goodreads asked Jonathan Edward Durham:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jonathan Edward Durham Write and read and SHARE YOUR WORK as much as you possibly can...and try to be okay with writing garbage for a while, because we ALL do at first. There's no such thing as beginner's luck in this craft and writing is rarely a young person's game, so just know that it's going to take time and effort and patience. Oh, and if there's a way that you can work on your story chops without worrying about the daunting prospect of completing a whole novel—short stories or screenplays or even flash fiction—spend some time on those while you're working on your prose as well :)

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