“Endings are important, but just because you might be nearing...

“Endings are important, but just because you might be nearing the end of this draft doesn’t mean your work is done! Writing is all about rewriting, so push to get to this, the first of many endings. Then congratulate yourself and refresh your brain by taking a nice long break (I recommend at least a few weeks!) and get ready to dive back in. Even if you don’t make your original deadline, set a new one and push hard toward it. All forward motion counts, and you’ve almost made it.”

—Ashley Woodfolk has loved reading and writing for as long as she can remember. She graduated from Rutgers University with a Bachelor of Arts in English and worked in children’s book publishing for ten years. She wrote her first novel, The Beauty That Remains, from a sunny Brooklyn apartment where she lives with her cute husband, her cuter dog, and the cutest baby in the world: her son Niko. When You Were Everything is her second novel.

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