How to Write
Ian Livingston
igrlivingston at gmail.com
Sun Jul 29 00:45:29 CDT 2012
Rule No. 2: Don't trust anything anyone tells you about writing. Cor.:
Don't dismiss anything anyone tells you.
Rule No. 3: Don't be negative.
On Sat, Jul 28, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Alex Colter <recoignishon at gmail.com>wrote:
> Rule No. 1: Don't heed anything you read in the New York Times.
>
>
> On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 12:08 AM, jochen stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Don't open your book with weather.
>>
>> 2012/7/28 Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>:
>> > The art of writing can be reduced to a few simple rules. I share them
>> > with you now.
>> >
>> >
>> http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/colson-whiteheads-rules-for-writing.html
>>
>
>
--
"Less than any man have I excuse for prejudice; and I feel for all creeds
the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in
reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness
groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest
urchin in the streets." -- Will Durant
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