Disagreeing With The Masters

Writing is an individual thing. It is a process -a calling- which has few truisms and oh so many variables and theories. As a writer you need to find your own way of looking at things and then adjust as you go along. It’s part science, sure, but there’s so much art that relying on formulas makes you stale and unresponsive.

Very recently (today) I ran across an article by the very prolific Dean Wesley Smith. He’s taken a shot at suggesting how to get started as a writer in 2013. (Which, coninci...