The Portable MFA in Creative Writing (New York Writers Workshop)

by The New York Writers Workshop

you can do whatever you can get away with, but you'll probably find you can't get away with very much.

Practice hard and often, attempt to do the exercises and the drills while you're practicing. Then, forget everything you've learned and write straight out of the fever (or the grind) of writing. Once you've got a stack of pages, read them, see how they're going, then think about the “rules.”