The Golden Rule of Writing

Writing rules are still on my mind, particularly rule # 1, which is "Write. Write regularly and write a lot. Aimee Bender's law is that she writes every day for two hours. When asked how she gets herself to do this she responded,"You don't understand. It's the law." Here are what other writers have said about writing:

• "The first thing you have to know about writing is that it is something you must do every day." Walter Mosley,This Year You Write Your Novel, O Magazine, August 2007
• "This is the practice school of writing. Like running, the more you do it, the better you get at it...You practice whether you want to or not. You just do it." Natalie Goldberg, Writing Down the Bones
• "A thousand words a day--or two hours of revision--five days a week for the rest of your life." Carolyn See, Making a Literary Life
• "You learn to write by writing." William Zinsser, On Writing Well
• "(Writers) write with everything they have, daily if possible, and for the rest of their lives." Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird
• "I can fix a bad page, but I can't fix a blank one." Nora Roberts, J.D. Robb
• "If you want to be a writer-stop talking about and sit down and write!" Jackie Collins
• "Get to work. Your work is to keep cranking the flywheel that turns the gears that spin the belt in the engine of belief that keeps you and your desk in midair." Annie Dillard, The Writing Life