Kurt Vonnegut’s 8 Tenets of Storytelling
Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
“When Kurt Vonnegut wrote ‘Write to please just one person,’ what he was really saying was write for yourself. Don’t try to please anyone but yourself. . . . The second you start doing it for an audience, you’ve lost the long game because creating something that is rewarding and sustainable over the long run requires, most of all, keeping yourself
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he would rather you err on the side of caring passionately vs. writing eloquently:
Kurt Vonnegut • Pity the Reader: On Writing with Style
