Goodreads asked Kelly Antoine:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Kelly Antoine Writing is hard work. Really hard. The most important thing for me was to get to a place where I couldn't walk away from it. It can be tempting to stop and re-write awkward sentences, paragraphs, even chapters as you move along. For me, I had to power through until the end. If I didn't let the little imperfections go, I never would have finished. There will always be time to go back and edit later. But until you have the basic foundations of a beginning, middle, and end, you're in danger of letting the editing consume the entire project. Don't get bogged down with detail and poetry on your first draft. Just get to the end.

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