Tip One: Read

Tip Two: Write

Tip Three: Step away from your draft

Tip Four: Rewrite

Tip Five: Repeat steps one through four.

The truth behind this banal lesson is this: there are no secrets to better writing, no short-cuts, no methods, just tools. The tools are always as good as whom uses them–neither better nor worse.

The greatest tool is time. If one hopes to slow down the reader’s sense of time, one must take one’s time in creating. And so it takes a wise person to know how to use one’s time to squeeze the proverbial juice from each moment. Time and also patience.

In a society that judges artists and people based on their output, quantity over quality, and also dismisses people for the lack of output, it takes a perspicacious person, a thoughtful and secure soul to understand that there is no race to be won in the pursuit of Art, and nothing is proved by being the most prolific or the most popular.

So take your time.

Get the words just right.

If there is one thing which everyone, be they a writer/artist or layman, must do and can do it is not just to live passionately (which is very important to do), but also to live thoughtfully, deeply, with interest paid towards the simplest, commonplace things: “Eternity in a grain of sand.”