Donald N.S. Unger
1. Actually write.
2. Dare to be bad.
3. Find your audience--both the people who will read you for pleasure and the people who understand what you are doing well enough (10% of your friends and family--if you're lucky) to give you useful feedback.
4. When you find "good readers," LISTEN to them (which is to say: you need a HUGE ego to write; you need to step on that ego to revise; and you NEED--everyone needs--to revise).
2. Dare to be bad.
3. Find your audience--both the people who will read you for pleasure and the people who understand what you are doing well enough (10% of your friends and family--if you're lucky) to give you useful feedback.
4. When you find "good readers," LISTEN to them (which is to say: you need a HUGE ego to write; you need to step on that ego to revise; and you NEED--everyone needs--to revise).
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