need to know?

[adelaidesean]

Take a look at Robert J Sawyer's "Eight Things New Writers Need To Know".

Not a response to my ever-evolving 10.5 Commandments post, but a list of things I really wish I'd been told 17 years ago, when I first set out on this crazy adventure.

Every word is gold. It amazes me, for instance, how often people forget numbers 6 and 8. (No one here is guilty of it, I'm sure!)

Thanks to the gang at the Writers of the Future Contest for e-printing this great piece from the contest anthology, Volume XXII.

Comments

[benpeek.livejournal.com]

i love number six. heh. i dunno if i'd go along with that, though, but i figure if you read any body of work, you'll read award winning stuff.

like stephen, i am curious to how you see number three, tho.

[ladnews.livejournal.com]

See my reply. Does it make sense?

[benpeek.livejournal.com]

yeah, works for me.