Goodreads asked Katze Snow:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Katze Snow Write the first draft and then edit. It took me a long time to finally understand why this is tons better than writing one paragraph, obsessing over it, and before you know it four hours have slipped by you. That's four hours you could've spent plotting, writing, or even crying at your characters for refusing to do what you intended them to do.

Write the first draft, and then you can edit and change XYZ as much as you want. Trust me. This is the best advice I could give to any aspiring writer out there. Having a first draft is like laying the foundation. You need something solid, and partly constructed, to work on. Not just a few planks of wood here and there. Write, then edit.

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