I keep swearing I’ll never mention politics (especially Scottish politics) again and then fall off the wagon. So visualize me climbing back on the wagon and getting back to the topic of writing. I was going on a bit about Heinlein’s Rules and his first two were pretty straightforward. You Read more…
I posted a few days ago (ok… ok… it was a couple of weeks) about how to succeed in writing and mentioned that you actually have to write. Afterwards, I realized that, of course, I was merely echoing the great Robert Heinlein in his Heinlein’s Rules from his classic essay Read more…
Some say that there are no rules for writing. Someone recently told me that. It happened that Mark Twain disagreed and he gave an interesting list. On my “if you’re going to steal, steal from someone great” theory, I’m stealing the good Mr. Clement’s rules, which are: Twain’s Rules of Read more…
I ran into a blog with comments from a lot of famous writers on this subject the other day. I’d point you toward it IF I could remember where I saw it! But I thought it was an interesting topic and thought I’d throw in my own experience–not that I’m Read more…