The Greatest Commandment for a Writer

You shall love YHWH your God with all your heart and soul and mind and strength.

And you shall love your reader as yourself.

1. Write the kind of work you want to read.
2. Assume your reader has read nothing of what you wrote before.
3. Be concise.
4. Be shockingly vulnerable.
5. Be painfully specific.
6. Root out all clichés.
7. Surprise your reader.
8. Read your draft out loud.
9. Edit. Edit. And edit again.
10. If all else fails, throw out your draft and start over.

Writing is an act of faith, not a trick of grammar.

-E. B. White