RTW: Learning It the Hard Way

Road Trip Wednesday is a blog carnival, where YA Highway’s contributors and readers post a weekly writing- or reading-related question and answer it on our own blogs. You can hop from destination to destination and get everybody’s take on the topic.

This week, Road Trip Wednesday goes all interactive. We’re each posting a question on our blogs—then traveling from one blog to the next to answer each others’ questions.

So, tell me...

What’s the best writing tip you learned—the hard way?

For me, it’s this: It doesn’t matter how much research you do on the industry, your story, ergonomic desk chairs, whatever. At some point, if you really want to be published, you have to just write the book.