The six most valuable tricks of one writer’s trade.
1. I don’t start within an idea but a line or image with an unresolved tension.
2. I write for surprise, not what I know, but what I do not yet know.
3. I write out loud. My voice instructs.
4. I write fast to outrun the censor and cause the instructive failures necessary to effective writing.
5. I try to anticipate and answer the questions the reader will ask,
6. I revise by developing my strengths more than by correcting errors.