Il y a des tonnes de top 10 ici. (pogné chez @_MlleB)
C’est dirigé à des gens qui écrivent des bouquins mais quand même, j’y ai quand même trouvé plusieurs conseils intéressants.
Voici quelques unes de mes préférées :
Do back exercises. Pain is distracting.
Writing is work. It’s also gambling. You don’t get a pension plan. Other people can help you a bit, but essentially you’re on your own. Nobody is making you do this: you chose it, so don’t whine.
Do restrict your browsing to a few websites a day.
Do, occasionally, give in to temptation. Wash the kitchen floor, hang out the washing. It’s research.
Finish the day’s writing when you still want to continue.
Keep a diary. The biggest regret of my writing life is that I have never kept a journal or a diary.
Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.
Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It doesn’t matter how “real” your story is, or how “made up”: what matters is its necessity.
Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
Marry somebody you love and who thinks you being a writer’s a good idea.
Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money.
Try to think of others’ good luck as encouragement to yourself.
The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.
Write in the third person unless a really distinctive first-person voice offers itself irresistibly.
It’s doubtful that anyone with an internet connection at his workplace is writing good fiction.
Finish what you’re writing. Whatever you have to do to finish it, finish it.
Remember: when people tell you something’s wrong or doesn’t work for them, they are almost always right. When they tell you exactly what they think is wrong and how to fix it, they are almost always wrong.
The main rule of writing is that if you do it with enough assurance and confidence, you’re allowed to do whatever you like. (That may be a rule for life as well as for writing. But it’s definitely true for writing.) So write your story as it needs to be written. Write it honestly, and tell it as best you can. I’m not sure that there are any other rules. Not ones that matter.
Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.
