Goodreads asked Wayne Coker:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Wayne Coker I’d say the first thing one needs to grasp on to is don’t worry about sentence structure, spelling, or grammar. For some though, that just comes naturally. Nonetheless, Just write down the words of your thoughts and let it flow. By the time you fill a page or two with text, leave it alone until the next day. Now that you’re refreshed, you can go back and peruse your writing and begin to rearrange your thoughts into something a little more readable that reflects what it was you were trying to say. And then do a good job of editing. You are now ready to move on.
But after finishing a chapter, you’ll need to go back and review the overall flow of your work and begin to make more changes and editing. There can never be a time you need to stop editing. Well, at least until you’ve had several more reads of the final piece of work with fresh eyes that will pick up the flow of one chapter to another. And, of course, the little things, like leaving out important little words like, the, a, or an apostrophe, etcetera, or perhaps a sentence that makes no sense in a paragraph and could just as well be left out and improve the read…
What I’ve had to say is what I’ve learned on my own after years of writing. Each author can have a totally different view on this subject. Oh, one other thing, what helped considerably was to read, read, and read some more of literature that resembles the type of book you may be writing. Happy writing…

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