Goodreads asked Danielle Forrest:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Danielle Forrest I'm certainly nowhere special, but I would say just keep at it. Decide what your goals are, what you want to achieve, and set yourself tasks to complete said goals. If you make each step reasonable, and don't lock yourself into a rigid schedule that you may not be able to pull off, the end goal will be before you before you know it.

I have started using Asana.com, which I've found really useful for not only keeping myself on track, but also rewarding myself for progress (It feels really good when you can mark a task as complete!).

In closing, just KNOW yourself. If you try to do things in a way contrary to yourself, you will fail.

For example, when I first started using Asana, I got very excited and was creating all these tasks and assigning myself deadlines. Little did I know, I was sabotaging myself. Once I missed each deadline, it became harder to reach the next one, and eventually I just gave up. It took ages to pick back up on editing Mila's Shift. Now that I have learned from my mistakes, I've edited 38% of Draft 3 of Mila's Shift in 4 days. I've never been that productive before.

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