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AUGUST QUESTION: As a writer/author what is something you regret or something you wished you had done differently in your writing process?
I wish that I would have started sooner with my fiction writing, although I did start writing short stories. Work and family life seemed to get the way, and I was doing a lot of technical writing which was difficult for me to switch gears and focus using my imagination.
I also mistakenly took the advice of a editor who looked at my first novel, a historical romantic mystery. His advice resulted in me becoming discouraged, and I shoved it in a drawer for a long time until I realized that his opinion was just that--one opinion only. I later was lucky to get it published by a small press. It became the start of my series called the Ashmore Brothers which have done exceptionally well.
My experience is one reason why I encourage younger writers to not give up or give in, and keep on writing and sending out letters/queries to editors and book publishing companies.
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