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Goodreads asked B.Y. Yan:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

B.Y. Yan Just. Keep. Writing.

In this day and age it seems how much you write and how good your work is matters less than how you manage to sell that work to the public - if taking off your clothes and dancing in the rain will get you noticed, so be it! Humiliation of the writer in exchange for eyes is preferable to having the work stand on its own merits.

If you were horrified by what was written above, then you have what it takes to be a writer. That way lies doom. The work is yours, and the work is all that matters in the end. Just. Keep. Writing.
B.Y. Yan Just. Keep. Writing.

In this day and age it seems how much you write and how good your work is matters less than how you manage to sell that work to the public - if taking off your clothes and dancing in the rain will get you noticed, so be it! Humiliation of the writer in exchange for eyes is preferable to having the work stand on its own merits.

If you were horrified by what was written above, then you have what it takes to be a writer. That way lies doom. The work is yours, and the work is all that matters in the end. Just. Keep. Writing.

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