Kurt Vonnegut’s eight rules for writing

I have recently came across Kurt Vonnegut’s eight rules for writing a short story. I thought they are pretty brilliant, regardless of the scope of you story (they could apply to a full length novel just as much), so I have reproduced them below together with my thoughts about them.

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

I think this is highly apropos the modern era. Do you want books for free? I can bury you under a pile of free bo...