Advice from here - by RM Greenaway

"LIFE If you could talk to the person you were when you were writing your first-published novel, what insights and guidance would you give yourself about the writing life?"

When I first read this question, I started compiling a list of all the MANY MANY things I could tell my young self as I started plunking away at Draft 1 so many years ago.
I've come up with moral support and technical pointers, assurances that all will be okay, in spite of the heartbreak, tears, crumpled up rejection letter...