Frances Schoonmaker
Keep a notebook of ideas. You may not use them right away, but they may be just the thing later.
Keep working on your craft.
Mostly, keep thinking about the story--it has to be a story you want to read.
Then don't give up. I often thought that if I hadn't had a meaningful career in education before I started writing fiction, I'd have been left with a battered ego after the many rejections by agents and publishers!
Keep working on your craft.
Mostly, keep thinking about the story--it has to be a story you want to read.
Then don't give up. I often thought that if I hadn't had a meaningful career in education before I started writing fiction, I'd have been left with a battered ego after the many rejections by agents and publishers!
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