Goodreads asked Julia Webb:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Julia Webb Don't be too keen to get into print straight away. Get as much experience as you can. Practice your craft, learn from other writers, if you can afford it go to workshops, read books about how to write and edit. Editing is skill everyone should learn - it can turn a good poem into a great one. My main advice though is read, read, read - read widely - if you want to write poetry read as much and as many different types of poetry as you can. Read cover to cover, observe styles used, how the words and lines work together, the internal rhythms, and look at how the poems in a collection work together - collections aren't just thrown together - the writer will usually have worked hard on finding the right order and the poems may riff off of each other, work chronologically, or explore particular themes.

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