Tip 9: Discard the Program when you feel like it–but go back to it the next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude.
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11 Writing Tips from Henry Miller Tip 8
Tip 8: Don’t be a draught-horse! Work with pleasure only.
11 Writing Tips from Henry Miller Tip 7
Tip 7: Keep human! See people; go places, drink if you feel like it.
11 Writing Tips from Henry Miller Tip 6
Tipe 6: Cement a little every day, rather than add new fertilizers.
11 Writing Tips from Henry Miller Tip 5
Tip 5: When you can’t create you can work.
11 Writing Tips from Henry Miller ~ Tip 4
Tip 4: Work according to the program and not according to mood. Stop at the appointed time!
Tip 6 of 6 Writing Tips by George Orwell
Break any of these rules sooner than say anything outright barbarous ~ George Orwell
Tip 1 of 7 Writing Tips by F. Scott Fitzgerald
Start by taking notes.
You must begin by making notes. You may have to make notes for years…. When you think of something, when you recall something, put it where it belongs. Put it down when you think of it. You may never recapture it quite as vividly the second time.
Source: Open Culture
Tip 2 of 7 Fiction Writing Tips by William Faulkner
Don’t worry about style.
I think the story compels its own style to a great extent, that the writer don’t need to bother too much about style. If he’s bothering about style, then he’s going to write precious emptiness–not necessarily nonsense…it’ll be quite beautiful and quite pleasing to the ear, but there won’t be much content in it.
Source: Open Culture
Rule 9 of Elmore Leonard’s 10 Writing Tips
Don’t go into great detail describing places and things.
Unless you’re Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language or write landscapes in the style of Jim Harrison. But even if you’re good at it, you don’t want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.
Source: New York Times
