Goodreads asked Laura Catherine Brown:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Laura Catherine Brown Trust yourself. Go where the energy is, even if it feels weird and even if you think nobody else will be interested. Find good readers. This will take fortitude and energy. You can tell a bad writing group or a bad reader if you feel defeated, drained and fruitless after a discussion about your work. A good writing group or a good reader will excite you about possibilities, make you feel frightened as if you’re on a precipice and the ground has crumbled beneath your feet but you’re stimulated and wide open. Be resilient. Let yourself be sparked by ideas and language and possibilities you don’t understand. Read widely and deeply and constantly. Persistence is everything. Let writing become a way of making sense of your world, of finding shape for your chaos. There is an expression, a vitality, a unique experience where your particular intersection of personal history and larger society converge. You are the only one standing at that intersection. Only you can tell your story. Have faith. Trust yourself.

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