This is borrowed from Great Writers on the Art of Fiction, edited by James Daley. I found mine in the library, Amazon have some too. Now all I need is the British equivalent.Over to Vonnegut.
Find a subject you care about and which you in your heart feel others should care about. It is this genuine caring, and not your games with language, which will be the most compelling and seductive element in your style.<end post>
I am not urging you to write a novel, by the way - although I would not be sorry if you wrote one, provided you genuinely cared about something. A petition to the mayor about a pothole in front of your house or a love letter to the girl next door will do.
Do not ramble, though.
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So true. Everyone knows before they start writing that's it's hard to break into publishing, but we all stick with it anyway.
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