Goodreads asked Jennifer Vandever:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jennifer Vandever Be patient and gentle with yourself. Be prepared to spend whole days or weeks (or months or years) thinking you’re crazy and wasting your time. Writing a novel is, when you think about it, a pretty bizarre way to spend your time but if you’re committed it can actually be pleasurable. People have this vision of tortured novelists – which I guess is sometimes the case – but the thing that’s rarely reported is that swimming inside a novel that’s still just inside your head and your computer or a pad of paper can sometimes be really, deeply pleasurable

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