"The best advice my mom has ever given me is to never give up. She believes when one door shuts, another door opens. Always, always move forward."

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The best advice I can give on this is, once it's done, to put it away until you can read it with new eyes. Finish the short story, print it out, then put it in a drawer and write other things. When you're ready, pick it up and read it, as if you've never read it before. If there are things you aren't satisfied with as a reader, go in and fix them as a writer: that's revision.

— Neil Gaiman