Goodreads asked Asghar Abbas:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Asghar Abbas It's all very very simple really. Don't be one. Don't become a Writer. Abort ! abort ! abort !. Too late, you already are one, because words inside is something very inherent. If I could impart some wisdom that I unintentionally picked up over the years. If I may say one thing that would be ; don't let anyone tell you what you can or can't be, become or unbecome. That's all you need to know. Nothing defines you and you can be a Lost Generationer if that's what you need to be. You are Neil Gaiman and Larry Brown. You are You. If you want to be a writer, be one. Don't let others do you a disservice of telling you what you are. You know what you are. But Everything that needs to happen, needs to happen Now. Otherwise you'll be like the White Rabbit chasing phantoms, always running late, always in a hurry, always out of time. With no burrows in sight.

Pros : You get to work for yourself
Cons : There is no Pay Day.

But heck you'll be a Rainmaker. So make it rain and make it rain hard
and make the wolves howl for you every night.

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