Goodreads asked Michael Taillard:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Michael Taillard Carry paper and pen with you everywhere. If you're at home, get a laptop and carry it with you. Constantly be writing and save everything. Even if the writing is crap, you'll eventually feel inspired by an idea, and more than likely you'll want to reference your old writing for other ideas. The point of writing stuff that you know is garbage isn't to publish it, but just to get into the habit of writing for long periods of time and to exercise the creative part of your mind. It's work at first, and you may not have any ideas for a full story, but just getting into that daily rhythm is part of being a professional writer. Worry about where to place your articles/books after they're written. You may have amazing ideas but they're just notes. Write them all down in random order. Single sentences that you like, cool quotables, abstract plot ideas, character concepts/encounters you'd like to see, references to real events, citations to other books which inspire you with annotations, etc. Write them all down in your notebook and use them to make yourself a better writer.

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