I write a story as if it were a letter to someone and essentially, that's what you do.
From Theodore Sturgeon
You don't sit up in a cave and write the Great American Novel and know it is utterly superb, and then throw it page by page into the fire. You just don't do that. You send it out. You have to send it out.
You write a story about loneliness, and you grab them all because everybody's an expert on that one.
The movers and shakers have always been obsessive nuts.
Once I had all the facts in, I found I didn't have the immoral courage to pull the caper. So I wrote it as a story. As a teenager, I didn't have any skills for writing as such, so it came out in 1500 words.
I've always written very tightly, and there's a good reason for that. There's no point in using words that you're not going to apply.
It should consist of short, sharply focused sentences, each of which is a whole scene in itself.
For years, I thought I simply didn't dream. I felt left out. Everybody else had a thing I didn't have.
When I can't do something, this always impels me to study it.
You must write to the people's expertise.
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