Writing Advice from Laini Taylor

I've wanted to be a writer since I was a small child, but I was 35 before I finished my first novel, because I have issues with perfectionism. It took me a long time to learn to finish what I start, and I've developed a lot of tools and tricks for keeping myself moving forward through a story when a big slice of my brain wants nothing so much as to stop and rewrite everything I've already written. It can be exhausting, but the upside is that I love to revise. The main thing I've learned is that we all have to learn to work with-and appreciate-the brain we've been given, and not waste time wishing things were easier