I’m in the midst of a revision, and this post from BuzzFeed came at the perfect time. Too juicy not to share!
30 Indispensable Writing Tips From Famous Authors
Writing is easy: All you have to do is start writing, finish writing, and make sure it’s good. But here’s some vastly more useful wisdom and advice from people who seriously know what the hell they’re talking about.
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1. Ernest Hemingway
2. Elmore Leonard
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3. Anton Chekhov
4. Toni Morrison
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5. George Orwell
6. E.L. Doctorow
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7. Henry Miller
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8. Elmore Leonard
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9. John Steinbeck
10. Stephen King
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11. Ralph Waldo Emmerson
12. Neil Gaiman
13. Maya Angelou
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14. James Patterson
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15. Stephen King
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16. Mark Twain
17. Toni Morrison
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18. Edgar Allan Poe
19. John Steinbeck
20. Annie Dillard
21. Ray Bradbury
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22. Saul Bellow
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23. Erica Jong
24. Kurt Vonnegut
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25. T.S. Eliot
26. Ernest Hemingway
27. Gertrude Stein
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28. F. Scott Fitzgerald
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29. Neil Gaiman
30. G.K. Chesterton
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