BiblioAddict

For those of you participating in NaNoWriMo (and even for those of you, who aren’t), here’s a few words of writing advice from Mr. Kurt Vonnegut (r.i.p):

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things — reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them — in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

One of these days, I promise I’ll get around to reading SLAUGHTER-HOUSE FIVE.

Oy. Now that I’ve made my daily posting deadline, I’m off to get some much needed R&R. A bit more substance is promised for tomorrow. In the meantime, I’ve been spreading the word to all who will listen about the site surfing um…site (?) StumbleUpon. Check it out (if you haven’t already). Surfing the internet has never been so much fun.