Goodreads asked Shelley Costa:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Shelley Costa In one sense, nothing new: read as much as you can (in and out of school) and write regularly. Beyond that, navigate your way through those periods when your determination flags, when you take all those rejections too much to heart, when paying the bills of daily life feels more in your face than your art. These things will always continue to be true, in varying degrees, and we've all been there. Develop patience and a sense of humor about difficulties and impediments. Remember that your through-line is that you are a writer -- you get to bring truth and beauty out of nothing. Steady on.

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