Ask Aunt Susan: How to Become Rich and Famous

 Q: What are the ten most important thing you’ve learned in your time as a writer? Both useful and useless?

-from Susan

 

Why waste time on useless advice, especially because one person’s moment of total clarity is another’s blank wall? Suffice it to say, you’ll hear lots of “tips” as you do seminars, attend panels, etc. No one’s going to mislead you deliberately, but your writing is unique to you. I do counsel you to listen and weigh anything you hear, because no one’s writing is perfect. Don’t re...