Good Advice

I had the opportunity to attend the LDS Storymakers Writers Conference last week - this is my fifth year! It was their biggest conference yet, with something like 450 writers/authors.

One of the most helpful things I took away from the conference was something one of the attending agents said. She reminded us to "believe in yourself." It's challenging to be a writer and break into the publishing world, and you must have that belief in what you're doing and what you want to accomplish. And the belief to stick with it.

Another agent had an analogy I really liked. She talked about how we might pick up a bestseller and think, "this book isn't really my taste." The same is true with manuscripts. And somewhere there's someone who is going to have a taste, a love, for what you're writing.