Robert Heinlein’s Five Rules for Writing

1. You must write.
2. You must finish what you write.
3. You must refrain from rewriting except to editorial order.
4. You must put it on the market.
5. You must keep it on the market until it is sold.

Robert Heinlein, in Of Worlds Beyond: The Science of Science Fiction Writing

Robert Heinlein is one of the “Big Three” science fiction writers of the 20th century along with Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. He is best known for his books Starship Troopers and Stranger in a Strange Land. He wa...