Goodreads asked Olly Barrett:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Olly Barrett If there's a story in you, write it. Even if it's terrible, once you've finished it, lock it away for a few months. When you read it again, you'll see the diamond in the rough.

When you are rejected by literary agents, just keep writing in the mean time. Just because they don't want you, doesn't mean your future readers don't.

I was rejected 173 times - "nobody wants animal POV stories these days", "It would be better as a film", "We can't place you in the market between MG & YA".

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