Ron Savage

Ron Savage has published more than ninety stories worldwide. He is the recipient of the Editor's Circle Award in Best New Writing (Hopewell) and has recently been nominated for the Pushcart Prize. He has been a guest fiction editor for Crazyhorse, and his new novel Scar Keeper: An Indigo Swann Mystery (Hilliard & Harris) is now out in bookstores and on amazon.com.
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I am fairly cynical about How-To anything and especially How-To things that have to do with writing. I would say write everyday and read everyday. Read the things you like and write the things you like. But if you are a writer you are doing that already.

Here are some more things you either know or are doing already, or both:

  1. Don't be afraid.
  2. Work in a not-too-comfortable room without a view.
  3. Nobody chooses to write.
  4. Words have a rhythm and you either hear the rhythm or you don't.
  5. Part of your business is rejection.
  6. Each day stop at the place where you want to go on.
  7. Rewrite the words of the story but not its life.
  8. Have a first reader who is neither too kind nor too cruel.
  9. Let your story find its own way.
  10. Give the reader room to participate.

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