Rebecca’s Writing Rules of Disorder

1. Break all the rules—at least once.
2. Think about the subjects you know. Then write about something you don’t know.       
3. Write—and they will buy it. (They sure won’t if you don’t.)
4. Follow all the rules—at least once.
5. Let your best friends and family read your stuff. Then do the opposite of what they say.
6. Go ahead and give up. Then try again tomorrow.
7. Never take an editor’s word as the last word (regarding rejection, that is).
8. Instead of selling 50 percent of what you write, sell 100 percent of what you don’t write. (Query, query, query.)
9. Never trust anything mechanical.
10. Flattering the editors will get you nowhere. Good manuscripts might make it to their desk.

© 2009, Rebecca Barlow Jordan