Goodreads asked Sean-Paul Thomas:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Sean-Paul Thomas Get out now while you're still aspiring. Go and start a book review blog instead, you'll feel more wanted and less alone that way.

If not and you're still determined, then grow a thick skin and beard. Talk to people about your book and hear what they have to say, like really bloody hear them. Become a good listener. Become a good people watcher. Travel as much as you can, meeting weird and wonderful characters and having crazy, great experiences that you can one day write about. All new writers should learn how to say yes more than no, even to the illegal stuff, that's where you'll find your best stories.

Get out more. Become more present. Take a look at what is going on around you. Mediate for at least 15 minutes a day with your eyes open. Procrastination is your cancer. Read, write or edit something, between 30 minutes and up to 4 hours a day. Make a schedule. Get into a routine. Make at least one other writer/artist friend. Read each others work, but never, ever socialize with them or make them your girlfriend, that is a disaster just waiting to happen :)

Read everything that is put in front of you, and read often, even if it's just the first chapter and no more. Find a published writer who you think writes similar to you and emulate the hell out of them.

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