Every post opens with a question (a blogging prompt, if you will), and this month's is: What is one valuable lesson you've learned since you started writing?
Can you really distill the experience of writing down to just one lesson learned? I learn something new with each draft, each publication, each review, and each discussion with other authors. Some lessons are bigger than others, but they all help me improve. I guess the biggest one (lately, at least) would be to keep the focus on the characters, and build up their personality layers to drive the story.
I did not get a lot of writing done last month - packing and moving kind of dominated my time - but we set a theme and deadline for the follow-up to our first anthology, and I am starting to accumulate some reviews, which is very encouraging!