Goodreads asked W.S. Ishida:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

W.S. Ishida Write. Just keep writing. Most of us need to get a lot of bad writing out of your systems first before we start to improve. Go back over your old writing and hopefully you should cringe a little bit and know how you could easily improve it - if you don't cringe at your own writing in the early days then either you're a fully-fledged genius or your not writing and reading enough to improve.

Share. Don't be scared to share your work. Too many aspiring writers either worry about the feedback or worry about other people stealing their ideas. But without feedback, you are shouting into a void. And stealing ideas is part of writing, we all steal from Shakespeare, our favourite author, the bible even. And anyway, it should be your style of writing, your unique voice that stands you apart, not your ideas so much how you present and portray your ideas. You have to reach the point where you feel confident that only you could've written your ideas in the way you do.

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