Goodreads asked Daniel Stern:

What’s your advice for aspiring writers?

Daniel Stern i have two pieces of advice:
1. WRITE. so many people say they're writing a book, but so few actually do the work. write and you've bypassed 95% of the pack. everyday write. even if it's just a sentence. after a month, you'll be surprised at how much you've accumulated.
2. SUCK. the only writer i know of who doesn't type a single word until he knows the entire work by heart is Edward Albee. the rest of us have to hack it out. and a big part of "hacking it out" is sucking. in short, you have to suck. so suck. suck hard. suck worse than you ever thought you could suck. most importantly, give yourself permission to suck. i call my first drafts "barf drafts." i know they're going to suck and meander and be barely readable, but i need to barf it all out in order to examine it and see what i've got. without fail, the barf draft produces the bedrock for my book.

so, yeah, write and suck. there's my advice.

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