Goodreads asked Jason J. Marchi:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Jason J. Marchi Read a lot. You must crammed your head full of ideas and language -- like filling a well with water by drilling deeper and deeper into life. And as soon as your fingers twitch to tough the keyboard, listen to them and sit and start typing. As soon as you feel the stir of emotion for a character, an idea, sit and start typing (or hand writing) and just let your thoughts flow. FORGET what teachers have taught you about composing complete sentences. Forget about spelling and grammar. These are all mechanical aspects of writing that can be corrected later. Right now you're job as a writer is to react emotionally to life and explode your passionate fears, loves, hates, thoughts onto the page ... run, run, run as fast as you can. Then, later, go back and edit, clarify, clean-up. If you sit there trying to compose one perfect sentence before going to the next you are misapplying your energy and wasting time.

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