Eight rules for writing fiction.

Great tips!

from a great writer! *POP

... nay, from God, who also wrote:

This is what I find most encouraging about the writing trades: They allow mediocre people who are patient and industrious to revise their stupidity, to edit themselves into something like intelligence. They also allow lunatics to seem saner than sane.
-- Kurt Vonnegut, as quoted in Writers on Writing, Jon Winokur, Running Press, 1986

One of my favorite authors. POP..

admarshall, I love that quote. You should clip it.

...I've clipped the tips...They are great, for real, and ...a little bit funny...when it's about glass of water ...But, in fact, everything wants to be more than something...

Vonnegut's "breakfast of Champions", read it...you'll love it!

He said he was glad he went to school for chemistry and biology, because, since he read and wrote for his own amusement, there were no English teachers to tell him how to write or what to read. He credited that aspect of his education with his lifelong feeling that reading and writing were fun.

So, I think that, in KV's honor, we should all ignore his rules and discover our own.