Goodreads asked Jennifer Quail:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jennifer Quail You're not as good as you think you are. The worst thing about the new indie market is people can throw things up as 'published' that really aren't ready for it. I'm so glad it didn't exist when I created the first iteration, or even the second or third, of my characters, because I'd have been locked into a version of the story that wasn't the best it could be. Sure, I could rewrite, but it's hard to go backwards. Even knowing almost no one has read it, I have a hard time working around a short story featuring the character who became Joszef Kiraly that was published in 2001 as that's no longer the version of the character I'm working with. It's not just about writing something, it's about really writing it well. Sometimes that means going back and admitting what you wrote isn't great and maybe it needs to be changed, a lot. (No, you can't see the earlier versions. Even if I had a version that was easily readable on current OSs, I wouldn't post it.)

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