Half of What You Think You Don’t Know from James W. Ziskin

How long you’ve been writing, and what advice would you give to your younger self before you turned professional?
I have been writing seriously for about twenty years now. But before that, I wrote off and on for decades. That’s right, decades. As I’ve posted in this space before, I banged out my first novel on a portable blue Royal typewriter at the age of twelve. One hundred and ten perfectly fine sheets of paper ruined.
But I knew I wanted to be a writer even then, so I kept plugging away. Each ...