“Sit down and put down everything that comes into your head and then you’re a writer. But an author is one who can judge his own stuff’s worth, without pity, and destroy most of it.”
–Colette
Very hard to do but critical. Writers often suffer from one of two extreme views: 1. Everything I write is brilliant or 2. Everything I write is crap. Assume the second, then edit your crap into brilliance.
–Jim