Goodreads asked Dale Wiley:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Dale Wiley Does "aspiring" mean young? Probably not, but I guess I think of myself way back there. I am amazed at how much I wrote when I was younger. I didn't write near as much as some of my friends did, like my college friend Barry L. Levy, who has written a couple of Hollywood movies. Barry was a machine. He wrote screenplays and plays and novels and short stories while we were in school together and put me to shame in terms of how much he could write. But I guess it pays off.

Of course, kids and jobs and life make it harder to find the time to write you once had. I think I do a much better job of putting that time to use now, I think I have more of a handle on the "real world" side of writing now -- I think at times when I was younger I thought writing was some sort of "inspirational" exercise instead of the craft that it is -- but I would love to have that time back, when there was so much time to do what you love.

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