Goodreads asked L.S. Kilroy:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

L.S. Kilroy This advice may sound unconventional, but it's worked for me. It's true that practice makes perfect and you should try to get into a routine to hone your craft - take a class, workshop with fellow writers, and do the thing. Stephen King said "Writers write," and that's true. If you want to be good at something, you need to work at it. However, that isn't always easy. Sometimes with schedules and what not, especially if you work full-time at a job that sucks away your energy, if you have a relationship that you need to devote time to, or a child, you can't carve out a determined amount of time every day to write. I would go weeks without writing a word even when I was in the middle of working on a book. Sometimes it wasn't even because of other factors in my life, it was just because I didn't feel like it. If I'm not inspired and I'm not feeling it, I can't write. And I think that's okay. Because every time I've tried to force it, the product is crap. So my advice is: Write, but only when you feel it. Even though I don't write creatively every single day, I've still managed to produce three books and a slew of short stories in spite of being a high school teacher at one point and having a very stressful corporate job at another. When you feel it and when you're enjoying it, pushing yourself to work when you go home at night isn't as hard as you might think.

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