Goodreads asked Brock Adams:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Brock Adams Be ready for rejection and don't give up. I saw rejections at every level: short stories rejected before finally publishing one; un-agented novels rejected, then agents rejecting me, then finally getting an agent and getting tons of agented submissions rejected. Then, finally, a win. The rejections are discouraging, but every time I learned something, and my writing got better. If you keep working and improving, and keep putting your work out there, eventually you'll get good enough (and lucky enough) to find a home for your writing.

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