Everything Starts As Somebody's Daydream.

Treat Your Life Like Something To Be Sculpted.

In A Collaboration, Each Author Will Do 75% Of The Work.

Any Damn Fool Can Predict The Past.

The Reader Has Certain Rights. He Bought Your Story. Think Of This As An Implicit Contract. He's Entitled To Be Entertained, Instructed, Amused; Maybe All Three. If He Quits In The Middle, Or Puts The Book Down Feeling His Time Has Been Wasted, You're In Violation.

You Learn By Writing Short Stories. Keep Writing Short Stories. The Money's In Novels, But Writing Short Stories Keeps Your Writing Lean And Pointed.