How To Write:
1. Sit down every day and write something
2. Outline
3. Know Act structure
4. Know Sentence and Paragraph structure
5. Know Meter and how it works
6. Read everything in the world
7. Throw in everything in your heart including the kitchen sink
8. Get and accept criticism from everyone
9. Rewrite until you make yourself physically sick
10. Do not make excuses, do not justify anything
11. Write only what you know
12. Realize there must be drama, reality can only be caught in essence
13. Never repeat yourself
14. Learn how to communicate
15. Realize all of it is art, some of it more equal than others
16. Finish what you start
17. Realize that there are tens of thousands of people out there that write and think they do not have to do any of the above. Be polite to them.
1 comment:
Love your list, especially the last one.
It's amazing the number of people I meet who think that fiction writing is easy.
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