If you’re going down the traditional publishing route, before you can even approach publishers you need an agent.
My last piece of advice is READ EVERYTHING! It’s extremely important to learn what’s being put out in the world, all the boundaries you can break and to get inspired. So go have a drink, watch a silly show, run around the block, hang out with friends, do whatever you need to do to remove the rain cloud of funk, and then sit back down and keep on writing! We might even be experiencing one of these thoughts at this very moment. If you ever feel like a failure, that you’ll never finish that MS, that your story and characters won’t be loved, well, we all have felt this way. Second, remember that you’re not alone in this (usually) scaling the side of a mountain type climb of being an author. With every word, sentence, and chapter you will only get better. I have three pieces of advice that aren’t the most unique but I really believe to be true. So yes, life itself, and the people, can be a really rich place to grab from.ĭo you have any advice for aspiring authors? Living in New York is perfect for this, allowing me to constantly be watching and observing the things around me, waiting for inspiration to strike. In high school is when I actually thought about trying to write a full story, after I took this amazing English fairy-tales class.Īlmost everything can act as an inspiration for me-music, conversations, seeing something on the street, etc. While the animator thing obviously didn’t transpire, the passion to create worlds and people to fill it stayed with me. Drawing characters and imagining their stories was a large part of my childhood. When I was little-on top of obsessively reading comics-I dreamed of becoming a Disney animator. What inspired me to get started in writing, and keeps inspiring me today, were really other stories and books.
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