The Craft: Rules for Writing

[This is part of a continuing series on the art of writing fiction.]

[SPOILER ALERT: This post contains spoilers for the Chekhov story, “Lady with the Lap Dog.” ]

I’ve been hesitating on writing this post for a while. I think two things were holding me back.

First, I guess I didn’t want to give away the farm. All that hard work, writing, thinking, finally coming up with these rules…And then just letting them go out into the world. But part of the idea of this blog is to share and make other writ...