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"Now Lend me your ears. Here is
Creative Writing 101.
1. Use the time of a total stranger in
such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2.
Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a
glass of water.
4. Every sentence must do one of two things --
reveal character or advance action.
5. Start as close to the end
as possible.
6. Be a sadist. No matter how sweet and innocent
your leading characters, make awful things happen to them – in
order that the reader may see what they are made of.
7. Write to
please just one person. If you open a window and make love to
the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
8. Give
your readers as much information as possible as soon as
possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such
complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that
they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat
the last few pages."
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| ~Kurt
Vonnegut~ |
| ~Bagombo
Snuff Box~ |
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| "Get an idea. Start
with action, somebody does something--a man reaches out a hand
and opens a door, light shines in his eyes, a body lies on the
floor, he turns, looks up and down the hall... Always action in
detail. Make pictures. Like motion pictures. Always the scenes
are visible. No stream of consciousness at all. We don't give a
damn who's thinking what--only what they're doing. Always doing
something. From one scene to another. Don't worry about it
making sense. That's for the end. " |
| ~Marcel Duhamel~ |
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