Goodreads asked Linnea Hartsuyker:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Linnea Hartsuyker This is going to be the most cliche-ridden advice, but...writers write. If you write, you're not an aspiring writer, you are a writer. My advice is to find a reason to write that does not depend on outside validation. Write because you want to read the story you're writing. Write because you want to explore an idea, a world, a character. Learn to do it better, and learn from other people's input, but even doing that is a good way to make sure that what you write will be a story you want to read.

Another of my favorite pieces of writing advice is that everything you write is necessary to get to the words after that. Write 1000 words, a story, a novel, and feel like it fails on some level? That's okay--without writing those words, you could never have written the words you wrote next.

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