Goodreads asked Elizabeth C. Mock:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Elizabeth C. Mock Keep at it! This career is a marathon, never a sprint. Drafting is only 10% of the process. 90% is revision and edits. Good writing is rewriting. So, write, write, write. I'm not going to say you need to write every day because you need to live your life to have something to write about. But it's helpful to make writing a habit.

Read widely and in every genre and in every market--fiction and nonfiction, literary and genre, adult and middle grade. And if you want to understand rock solid story structure, read kid lit and watch kids movies. Writing for kids is the hardest writing to do. You will find the best executed storytelling in kids media, and it won't have any gimmicks. Gimmicks don't work on kids.

Find other creatives to be in community with. Writing is a lonely venture. You need other creatives who understand and can push you to improve.

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