My 10 Rules of Writing

1. Write every day.
2. Start with a freewrite BY HAND — allow your subconscious to take control of the pen.
3. Find someone to read your writing who is NOT a writer.
4. Find a group of writers you have something in common with — it does not need to be genre, or age, or style.
5. Leave a group if you don’t like it — writing or otherwise. (Make sure to record conversations and impressions in your notebook though. It makes for good conflict.)
6. Read a poem, an essay, and a short story EVERY DAY. Input is important for your output.
7. Carry a notebook or note-taking device with you everywhere.
8. Find writing mentors — in real life or in books.
9. Finish the story even if it is terrible. You will still learn something, even if it is only just to finish.
10. Write YOUR story, not someone else’s.

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