Goodreads asked Christopher Sharp:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Christopher Sharp I learned a few important things from people I've met and books that I've read.
1. Write something every day if you want to be a writer.(it doesn't matter if it's one word or ten pages)
2. Set a deadline for your work.(you don't actually have to finish the first draft on that day but once you go over it you know that you just passed the last gas station for a hundred miles and the needle is on E)
3. Learn to be patient. (If you don't your publisher will give you a crash course) I wrote a second manuscript while i was waiting for my first to be published. (100,000 words in the first draft)
4. The most important thing you can do is learn how to forget. Forget everything you know (or think you know in my case) and turn off your brain. The brain isn't where the story comes from, it's where you store the words to the song "On blue Bayou" (Dreamcatcher, Stephen King) It's the mind that produces the stories. Once you can learn to separate the two the sky's the limit.

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