Goodreads asked Aimee Hix:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Aimee Hix Write. Every day. Challenge yourself to write 100 words for 100 days. If you don't get 100 words in each day, you start back over at day 1. For competitive people, for self-critical people, you will push yourself to do it and not fail. I was challenged to do 100 for 100 by an author friend and it was the beginning of writing the manuscript that became What Doesn't Kill You.

Read. Every day. My mentor calls reading your MFA in writing. You learn so much from reading extraordinary works, you learn even more from bad books because you learn what you don't like.

Don't try to write something you're not interested in because it's popular or critically-acclaimed. If you didn't like reading The Girl on the Train, you won't like writing a book like it because maybe unreliable narrators aren't your thing. Write the story you want to read because you will read it a thousand times.

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