The Ten Commandments...of writing

The gospel according to St. John of Dufresne
(or, from John Dufresne's The Lie That Tells a Truth: A Guide to Writing Fiction

1. Sit your ass in the chair!
2. Thou shalt not bore the reader
3. Remember to keep holy your Writing Time
4. Honor the lives of your characters
5. Thou shalt not be obscure
6. Thou shalt show and not tell
7. Thou shalt steal
8. Thou shalt rewrite and rewrite again. And again.
9. Thou shalt confront the Human Condition
10. Be sure every death in a story means something

Um, okay...

MorelaterZ--