![]() 1 When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else. 2 When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would. 3 Don't romanticise your "vocation". You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no "writer's lifestyle". All that matters is what you leave on the page. 4 Avoid your weaknesses. But do this without telling yourself that the things you can't do aren't worth doing. Don't mask self-doubt with contempt. 5 Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it. 6 Avoid cliques, gangs, groups. The presence of a crowd won't make your writing any better than it is. 7 Work on a computer that is disconnected from the internet. 8 Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you. 9 Don't confuse honours with achievement. 10 Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never being satisfied.
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