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I've been doing an awful lot of thinking about writing recently. For the past couple years I've been mulling over a bit of genre fiction that would make for, I think, a fine comic book. It's all started to come together in the past month; I have a solid core of characters and ideas I like, and they're fitting quite comfortably in their world.
This list of lists of rules was rather fascinating. Some favorite bits:
"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter." Neil Gaiman, pardon my hero worship
"Find an author you admire (mine was Conrad) and copy their plots and characters in order to tell your own story, just as people learn to draw and paint by copying the masters." Michael Moorcock
(I don't really know if Andersen counts, but that's who I'm taking to my anvil.)
"My main rule is to say no to things like this, which tempt me away from my proper work." Philip Pullman
This list of lists of rules was rather fascinating. Some favorite bits:
"The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you're allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it's definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I'm not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter." Neil Gaiman, pardon my hero worship
"Find an author you admire (mine was Conrad) and copy their plots and characters in order to tell your own story, just as people learn to draw and paint by copying the masters." Michael Moorcock
(I don't really know if Andersen counts, but that's who I'm taking to my anvil.)
"My main rule is to say no to things like this, which tempt me away from my proper work." Philip Pullman