Goodreads asked Laura Browning:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Laura Browning Write. Does a professional athlete become the best at her game by talking about what she's going to do or by actually doing it? Of course the answer is by actually doing something. You improve your craft by writing. You assess your success by submitting your writing to editors and publishers. Then you repeat the process by using their advice, rejection, etc. to improve your craft. If you look at the earlier works of almost any writer and compare them to later writings, you will see there is a metamorphosis in everyone's writing.
I wrote for a long time without submitting anything. My husband compared me to a woodcutter who carefully cut and stacked the trees he chopped down but then simply left the wood to rot where it was. It was his observation that finally spurred me to submit to a publisher.

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