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1. Write.
2. Put
one word after another. Find
the right word, put it down.
3. Finish
what you’re writing. Whatever
you have to do to finish it, finish it.
4. Put
it aside. Read it pretending you’ve
never read it before. Show it to friends whose opinion you respect and who like
the kind of thing that this is.
5. Remember: when
people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost
always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how
to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
6. Fix
it. Remember that, sooner
or later, before it ever reaches perfection, you will have to let it go and
move on and start to write the next thing. Perfection is like chasing the
horizon. Keep moving.
7. Laugh
at your own jokes.
8. The
main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence,
you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But
it’s defnitely true for writing). So write your story as it needs to be
written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that
there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
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