It’s always fun to look around and see what writing advice authors have.  To start with I found an article about what authors who won the Nobel Prize for Literature had on writing. I found two helpful ones.

1. Make people believe in your story.
The Colombian author Gabriel Garcia Marquez received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1982. The celebrated author of novels such as A Hundred Years of Solitude was also a journalist. When asked about the difference between journalism and writing ficti...