Write a fucking story.
Occasionally, you’ll have to write a non-fucking story.
Write what you know. Then read your beans-on-toast saga and
decide to write other kinds of stories instead.
Don’t make it realistic. Make it readable.
The dictionary is your friend. Not your crutch. Lean on your
friend occasionally. Don’t expect to be carried everywhere by your friend. If
you’ve written a thesaurus, call it that on the cover.
Hate typing. Enjoy writing.
Just write the story once. If that doesn’t work, write
another story. Just once. And if that doesn’t work, write another story. Just
once. Then ask yourself how many stories you’ve written. If the answer is still
one, go and write another story. Just
once.
Sooner or later you’ll have to read. Try to make that sooner.
Stick with advice that is useful to you at the time. A suit
of armour will protect you from that rampaging knight. Don’t wear that suit of
armour outdoors in a raging storm.
If you find it easier to write porn than star in porn, write
porn.
Killing off a major character is just typing. Get weepy over
real shit.
The pain of being a writer shouldn’t inflict pain on the
reader.
Get it wrong. Try again. Get it wrong again. Try again
again.
Taste defeat in private. Then taste defeat in public. Detest
the taste of defeat.
If you write what you know and your first book is a murder
story, for fuck’s sake admit you worked in law-enforcement.
People won’t like your writing. You will be one of those
people.
If you don’t start somewhere, where does that leave you?
Start a story. Middle a story. Finish a story. Start a new story.
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