Re: Stephen King's 10 tips to successful writing

> six rejection slips, certainly, nor after sixty.  But after six hundred?
> Maybe.  After six thousand?  My friend, after six thousand pinks, it's time
> you tried painting or possibly computer programming.
>      Further, almost every aspiring writer knows when he is getting warmer --
> you start getting little jotted notes on your rejection slips, or personal
> letters...maybe a commiserating phone call.  It's lonely out there in the
> cold, but there are encouraging voices...unless there is nothing in your
> words which warrants encouragement.  I think you owe it to yourself to skip
> as much of the self-illusion as possible.  If your eyes are open, you'll know
> which way to go...or when to turn back.
> 2.  Be neat.
>      Type.  Double-space.  Use a nice heavy white paper, never that erasable
> onion-skin stuff.  If you've marked up your manuscript a lot, do another
> draft.
> 3.  Be self-critical.