I know that many writing mentors will say that writers have to want to write–it defines them as writers and/or that writers write because they have no other choice. Well, I like to write, but I also like to have food in the freezer and a clean floor and money to spend. [...]
|
|||
|
Perhaps because he was only 18 years old, or perhaps because journalism will do this to you, the style sheet of the Kansas City Star made quite an impression on Ernest Hemingway. He was only there for six months, but later in life he would say that “Those were the best rules I ever learned for the business of writing. I’ve never forgotten them. No man with any talent, who feels and writes truly about the thing he is trying to say, can fail to write well if he abides with them.” [...] Think of this as Mark Twain’s 18 rules of writing. I’m just glad he’s not around to read my writing! [...] |
|||
Subscribe: