Four Writing Rules

1. Write Every Day
2. Be Accurate with Details
3. Treat Writing as a Business and as an Art Form
4. Follow the Chekhovian Lesson in Foreshadowing “If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off.”

–Wallace Stegner, acknowledged by Jay Paterno in the following article:

http://www.focusalot.com/blog/accomplished-writers