Goodreads asked Robb Lightfoot:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Robb Lightfoot One of the best tips I heard came from Tony D'Souza, an award-winning author and a person who has coached me. He says that we all must write alone, but none of us succeeds that way. You need to form a brain-trust of friends. They need not all be writers, but it helps. You need first-readers and people that you can talk to about your work. They can offer encouragement, suggestions and ask key questions. The best feedback I get is from my writing group. They often will point at passages that are unclear or that repeat what I said before. I can be repetitive. Did I just say that? Darn.

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