All the Writing Rules You’ll Ever Need To Know

I spent years and years and years internalizing the do-this-not-that lists directed at writers looking to land a contract.

Then the truth about writing rules became clear. So here they are, in order of importance:

Rule One: The story must connect with and entertain the reader so well, the reader will want to tell others about it.

Rule Two: Anything that interferes with the implementation of Rule One should be set aside.

That’s it. All the rest — all thoseguidelines and do-this lists and don’t-do-...