Status Updates From The Art of Fiction

"[...] most people think first as they have been taught to think; and next, as they see others think."

Unfortunately, there has grown up of late a bad fashion of measuring success too much by the money it seems to command.

Rules will not make a man a novelist, any more than a knowledge of grammar makes a man know a language, or a knowledge of musical science makes a man able to play an instrument. Yet the Rules must be learned.

First Line: I desire, this evening, to consider Fiction as one of the Fine Arts.