Goodreads asked Ross Young:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Ross Young Write. Don't say, "I want to be a writer," or any other nonesense. Nobody cares. People might care if you write something then you can show them, and if they read it they'll usually tell you what they think of it. Or they'll give you inane platitudes when you're not that good. There's always fear involved because writing is a deeply personal thing. It's a solitary task that requires you to pour your insides out onto the page and then you're supposed to let other people see it. If you don't let anyone see it you're getting nowhere fast. So write for you, but let people read it, take a risk, but minimise it. Polish your writing, check it again and again. Stick it in a drawer for a while, write something else, then look again, is it still amazing...it's never still amazing. Writing takes a long, long, long time, get used to it or don't bother at all.

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