Goodreads asked David Lee Summers:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

David Lee Summers Make sure you have a thick skin. Not everyone will like your work. Be as objective as you can when listening to criticism and use that criticism to grow as an author, while staying true to yourself. Be prepared for the long game. Overnight success is rare, and even if it comes, it's easy to burn out quickly. By the same token, sometimes people will discover and fall in love with your work years after it first went out into the world. Finally, read as much as you can in as many genres as you can. Reading in your own genre, it's all too easy to repeat tropes that are growing tired. Reading outside your genre is a great way to get ideas that will help you bring new life into your fiction.

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