Goodreads asked Chris Platt:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Chris Platt Don't ever give up!! If you truly want to get published, you have to hang in there and keep trying. Grow a thick skin. Writer's seem to be very touchy about their writing and don't like to hear criticism. It hurts when someone criticizes your work. But that's what it takes to figure out what you're doing wrong so you can fix your book and get to the stage where you are publishable. Put your book in the hands of people you trust to tell you the honest truth about your work. That's the only way you will grow as a writer and eventually get published. Join a good writer's group, take classes, read others who are successful authors. Remember, almost every published author has a book under their bed gathering dust bunnies. Something they wrote in the beginning, that wasn't very good, but it was the stepping stone to getting published. Never give up. Remember, some of the biggest authors out there were turned down many, many times, before they got published, and now they're on the best sellers list.

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