Goodreads asked Jamie Brickhouse:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jamie Brickhouse Write. Sit your ass down in a chair and commit to writing a certain amount of time, whether that's daily or throughout the week. You don't have to write everyday to be a writer, you don't have to be published to be a writer, you don't have to make a living at writing to be a writer, but you do have to write to be a writer.
Write when you feel like it. Write when you don't feel like it. Write about whatever scares you the most. Listen to your gut.
And then rewrite. Only Joan Crawford could get it right on the first take.
Join a writers group or workshop (that's how I got started) to get perspective and criticism on your work, to think about somebody else's work instead of your own, to let competition light a fire under your cold writer's chair, and to make you show up each week with something on the page.
And read with a writer's eye.

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