Sir BookMold The Great asked C.S. Pacat:

Is there something you feel like you wish you would've known sooner about writing? A certain technique, tip etc. that you can't live without now? :D

C.S. Pacat When I first started trying to write a novel, I wish I had known two things. First, that writing a novel is really hard, and second, that no one can write a novel when they first start out - everyone will have stuff they just can't do, like plotting, or coming up with ideas, or getting past the beginning, or making decisions, or whatever.

When I was starting out - and I think this happens to a lot of people - I found everything hard, and there was a lot that I couldn't do, and I thought that since it wasn't easy and I couldn't do it straight away, I must not be a writer. I wish someone had said to me then, "This is normal. It feels hard because it is hard. No one can do it when they first start out. What you're feeling, every novelist goes through this. The long period where you're producing bad work and you can't write a novel is the normal stage that everyone has to persevere through in order to be able to write a novel."

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