Serena Burdick, THE GIRLS WITH NO NAMES

Serena Burdick, THE GIRLS WITH NO NAMES

Serena: I think that the biggest challenge authors have is completing their work. I feel like so many people start out, they want to do it. Then they get discouraged at some point and set it aside. My biggest advice would be that even if you feel discouraged and you think it's terrible, I think you should finish it. It probably is terrible. The first draft's always terrible. The first book I wrote, which is not published, five years I wrote it. Then I remember there was a single day where I deleted sixty pages in one day. It was five hundred pages. I was a mess. It was such a mess. I just kept going and kept going. Then you overwrite. Then you take it away. My advice, it's just to finish the work and to have something complete that you can work with, is I feel like the biggest advice I could give to a writer.