1. Join a writer’s group. Resent every criticism and ignore all advice.
2. Join a writer’s group. Take every passing suggestion from everyone without regard for your own ear.
3. Join a writing organization. Volunteer for a bunch of committees. Never write a word for yourself again.
4. Wait for inspiration.
5. Indulge writer’s block. Complain to your sympathetic friends. Stay pathetic. Like them.
6. Don’t write to a deadline. Figure it will work out on its own.
7. Send off your first draft as soon as you’ve typed “The End.” Revision is for your lessors.
8. Edit forever. Call yourself a perfectionist instead of a lazy coward.
9. Don’t send simultaneous submissions. (The math says your work has a chance at publication. Posthumously.)
10. Obsess over writing trivia and silly Top 10 lists you spotted cruising Twitter. Instead of writing. Goddamnit.
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