Re: Stephen King's 10 tips to successful writing

>      If you haven't marked up your manuscript a lot, you did a lazy job.
> Only God gets things right the first time.  Don't be a slob.
> 4.  Remove every extraneous word.
>      You want to get up on a soapbox and preach?  Fine.  get one and try your
> local park.  You want to write for money?  Get to the point.  And if you
> remove all the excess garbage and discover you can't find the point, tear up
> what you wrote and start all over again...or try something new.
> 5.  Never look at a reference book while doing a first draft.
>      You want to write a story?  Fine.  Put away your dictionary, your
> encyclopedias, your World Almanac, and your thesaurus.  Better yet, throw
> your thesaurus into the wastebasket.  The only things creepier than a
> thesaurus are those little paperbacks college students too lazy to read the
> assigned novels buy around exam time.  Any word you have to hunt for in a
> thesaurus is the wrong word.  There are no exceptions to this rule.  You
> think you might have misspelled a word?  O.K., so here is your choice: