If This Isn’t Nice, What Is?: Advice for the Young
'Make your soul grow'
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Writing is a generosity, even to yourself.
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
- Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
- Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
- Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
- Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.
- Start as close to the end as possib