Goodreads asked Aiden Bailey:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Aiden Bailey Write constantly, and edit to take out the boring bits.

Describe everything that is important, limit your point of view characters to bare necessities, and don’t assume readers will be making the same connections you are.
Use dialogue to explain backstory where you can rather than blocks of text. Try to visualise each scene like you were watching your novel as a movie.

Also, come up with approaches, plotlines, characters and sequences you’ve never seen before. Challenge tropes and conventions of the genre you are writing for. Readers want to be surprised. They don’t want to feel like your book was just like the last dozen or so they just read.

So basically, come up with a concept no one has come up with before, write it in a way that from the first line to the last line they can’t put it down, and then leave readers itching to consume the next book in your series. Make sure it has a catchy cover.

I wish it was all that easy, but I think authors owe it to themselves and their audience to always strive for all of the above. That’s what I try to do.

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