Forget all the Rules and WRITE!!!
Ages ago in Manhattan a wonderful woman who worked in NYU’s Creative Writing Department was kind enough to look at my short stories. I told her I wanted to get an MFA at NYU. You are already good, she said. Study further and you will only damage your natural bent. Now forget all the rules and just write…so I did. Thank you Princess of Light and the Story Reading Ape for this post.
Originally posted on Princess of the Light: Shining the Light For All:
A friend of mine asked me, “What’s the secret to writing?”
I replied, “Ditch the rules and just write.”
It’s not complicated, people. Writing is as simple as you want to make it. So-called experts come up with these tricks of the trade in order to get published and rules to follow.
I agree with Melinda Haynes above (thanks to Belinda Witzenhausen for the graphic).
“Forget all the rules. Forget about being published. Write for yourself and celebrate writing.”
We are all storytellers and we have a story (or several thousand) to tell. So, tell your story. Be passionate about it and let the words flow. Readers will be drawn to the story and the characters, not the rules. :-)
Celebrate writing and get started!
MRS N, the Writer
