Were all familiar with the magic of the number 3 whether its three act structure; birth marriage, death; Three Little Pigs, Wishes, Stooges, Bears and so on. There is mysticism about the number 3 and theres even a Latin expression, omni trium perfectum that means everything that comes in threes is perfect. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_three_(writing)

Id like to propose The Hundred Rule. This rule states that the initial hundred pages of a first draft are worse than the combined awful...