Goodreads asked Jay Richards:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jay Richards This one is easy. Write. Any kind of journalism, "morning pages" scribbled lines of verse on grocery store receipts. It all counts, and it counts more if you are pause to be come an archaeologist of experience for a moment. Be aware of that specific piece of writing as an artifact of your consciousness at the moment your wrote it. Excavate it, by which I mean, dig it out of the strata of autobiographical memory and the amazingly deep and complex strata of language that it lies embedded in. Objectify it as an object that speaks to where you were. Now imagine it as living, the pterodactyl skeleton taking on flesh and flight.

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