Advice to Writers by Vonnegut

Kurt Vonnegut's 7 writing tips.

Malcolm Bastien January 3, 2012 1 min read
  1. Find a subject you care about
  2. Do not ramble, though
  3. Keep it simple
  4. Have guts to cut
  5. Sound like yourself
  6. Say what you mean
  7. Pity the readers

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It’s time for me to pick up another book on writing and to retrain myself again. The last book I read on writing was Bird By Bird, which I finished in March of last year. This short piece is a good warm-up, though.

Malcolm Bastien

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