Showing posts with label rules. Show all posts
Showing posts with label rules. Show all posts

Wednesday, November 16, 2011

Jason's Rules of Writing


Jason's Rules of Writing

(And why you shouldn't listen)

  1. You write gold. Except you suck.
  2. You will usually describe objects (nouns) by their three most important features. (More of a context thing.)
  3. Passive sentences are killed by a watchful eye (or eyes) and practice.
  4. Being redundant is redundant. Don't be redundant.
  5. Readers will hate a meaningless story more than a story full of crappy writing.
  6. Readers don't like to read crappy writing, unless glittering vampires are involved; and thus the pages glitter in their own respect.
  7. You write gold. Except you suck.
  8. The mark of a great writer is one who learns the rules (guidelines), and breaks them in such a way that the reader benefits from it (and possibly doesn't realize the breakage).

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