Great Rules of Writing Do not put statements in the negative form. And don’t start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading…
Thursday Quote: Isaac Asimov
“If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn’t brood. I’d type a little faster.” Isaac Asimov
Thursday Quote: Lord Chesterfield
“Next to doing things that deserve to be written, nothing gets a man more credit, or gives him more pleasure than to write things that deserve to be read.” Lord Chesterfield “A man of letters”
Thursday Quote: Orson Scott Card
“Everybody walks past a thousand story ideas every day. The good writers are the ones who see five or six of them. Most people don’t see any.” Orson Scott Card
Thursday Quote: Nancy Ann Dibble
“Make everybody fall out of the plane first, and then explain who they were and why they were in the plane to begin with.” Nancy Ann Dibble
Thursday Quote: Matthew Arnold
“Have something to say, and say it as clearly as you can. That is the only secret.” Matthew Arnold
Thursday Quote: T.S. Eliot
“If you start with a bang, you won’t end with a whimper.” T.S. Eliot