For What It’s Worth: Writing Tip from Kurt Vonnegut, No. 3

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

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Say… Writing Tip from John Steinbeck, No. 2

2. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.

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For What It’s Worth: Writing Tip from Kurt Vonnegut, No. 2

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

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Say… Writing Tip from John Steinbeck, No. 1

1. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.

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For What It’s Worth: Writing Tip from Kurt Vonnegut, No. 1

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

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Novel Writing Tip # 237: What to Write About.

“Write the book you want to read, the one you cannot find.”
—Carol Shields

 

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Fiction Writing Tip # 64: Healthy Workhabits

“Man seeks to escape himself in myth, and does so by any means at his disposal.
Drugs, alcohol or lies.”
—Jean Cocteau

 

 

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Fiction Writing Rules No.s 1, 2, & 3: The Novel

“There are three rules for writing a novel. Unfortunately, no one knows what they are.”
― W. Somerset Maugham

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Fiction Writing: Dear Contributor…

“I discovered that rejections are not altogether a bad thing. They teach a writer to rely on his own judgment and to say in his heart of hearts, ‘To hell with you.’”
—Saul Bellow

 

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