Goodreads asked Hari Parameshwar:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Hari Parameshwar
1. Read, read, read, read... ...read and write.
2. Read, read.... read what you have written.
3. Edit, review, edit, review, edit... until you feel it's written by someone, not you, thus able to detach you from your work.
4. Read, edit, review..., till you feel contented.
5. Ask a friend to read it!
6. Accept the feedback!
7. Go to step 4.
8. Ask someone else to read it.
9. Go to step 6.
10. Ask again someone, a stranger this time, to read it.
11. Go to step 9. (See the progress! You have moved from step 4 to step 9 now! Isn't it great?)
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67. Dare for a submission.
68. Accept the rejection.
69. Submit to another publisher.
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103. Consider a major structural change as all your dream publishers have either rejected your work or unresponsive.
104. Search new publishers (consider literary agents and publishers abroad too...) and continue with your submissions.
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159. Someone accepts your manuscript!

This is not the end. The story begins here. Beginning of new concerns, new experiences, new pains and trauma...

And if you still keep writing, you are passionate about it.

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