Goodreads asked Dane Huckelbridge:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Dane Huckelbridge My advice is to keep your chin up! Being a writer—and doing it for a living—is tough. It can take decades, and it can bring you to the brink of total despair. This is something I don't think is emphasized these days, with all these sun-shiney writing conferences and MFA programs and fellowships and what-not. Folks like to pretend that writing is this fun thing you do with your friends over glasses of tasty wine, when in reality, it's often a pretty difficult thing you do all alone over bowls of cheap ramen noodles. So my advice, and I don't know if it's very good advice, is to not get discouraged, and if you're serious about it, to never give up. I told someone once that deciding to be a writer is like deciding to row a boat across the Atlantic. It's actually a pretty bad idea, and I wouldn't recommend it to anyone. But if you're crazy enough to try it, never stop rowing, because it's the only way you'll ever make it to the other side.

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