i'm a daydreamer. gazing at stars, sleeping in trees, losing myself in my own world. i once had a friend tell me that i, and i quote, "have a party in your head and it's spilling out into the streets." well, with that, i decided to clean up my mess and put it on paper. so i began writing. and i'm a pretty confident guy (i have a nickname along the lines of "egoist") so if it weren't for my habit to procrastinate unnecessarily every other day, i think i'd have a multi-million dollar franchise in my hands by now. but i just write from day to day, slowly strolling along, seeing where the wind of literature takes me.
that's it, really. not a lot to my personal life. fencing, working, working out, chores at home. nothing special. it's ironic how such an average guy has such a hard working imagination, though. just something i like about myself.



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Kurt Vonnegut's 8 Rules for Writing:

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 the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. Now 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.


"The greatest American short story writer of my generation was Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964). She broke practically every one of my rules but the first. Great writers tend to do that." - Kurt Vonnegut


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George Orwell's 6 Rules for Writing:

1. Never use a metaphor, simile or other figure of speech which you are used to seeing in print.
2. Never use a long word where a short one will do.
3. If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
4. Never use the passive where you can use the active.
5. Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word or a jargon word if you can think of an everyday English equivalent.
6. Break any of these rules sooner than say anything barbarous.


QUIZ: Where would you put the commas in this sentence?

"A panda eats shoots and leaves."


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Julian Ayar's 1 Rule For Writing:

1. Write.