Eight rules for writing fiction

2nd April 2007 with 4 Comments

Kurt Vonnegut’s rules:
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 [...]

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