Medina Hill Blog Tour Wraps Up: Where is Trilby Kent Today?

By Dennis McCloskey

I have always believed in the adage that advice is far more blessed to give than receive. But I have been dispensing advice in the last 5 blogs, as the January Writer in residence, so I’d like to turn the tables and tell you about some advice I received as a young writer.

In 1990 I was assigned to write an article for Books in Canada, titled “Author’s Advice.” My job was to contact well known Canadian authors and ask them one question: “What advice would you give to a person who aspires to a writing career?” I got in touch with 16 authors and, not surprisingly, some of their tips were similar--but others were quite divergent.