Goodreads asked J.R. Young:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

J.R. Young This is the advice I have for writers who want to make a living from it: After you pour yourself into your book, detach yourself from it. Once you detach yourself, seek out trusted critiques and ask them to tear it apart; tell them to find every little thing wrong with it, to take a red pen and "bleed" all over it. If you've detached yourself from the book, you won't take criticism personally and will help you be more objective and accepting toward making changes that will take your book from "Yeah, that was a good book," to "Holy cow, that book is friggin' awesome!"

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