Goodreads asked Cory Swanson:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Cory Swanson Get a music degree. That’s where I learned grit, perseverance, and, most importantly, it endowed me with a growth mindset. I knew at first that I wasn’t as good as I wanted to be, but I also knew that the only way to get there was to keep at it. I went to my writer’s group like I went to viola lessons, to push myself to get better. To learn from everyone around me. Truthfully, I’m not all the way there yet. My vision of myself as a writer is not realized yet, and it may never be. But I’ll definitely be trying.

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