Authors Electric

In the couple of weeks leadig up to Christmas, I had a sit-down (virtually, of course) with some writer friends, and we spent quite a lot of time discussing the mechanics of writing. All of us have have recently been working with new writers, trying to help them, and someone (not me, wish I could take the credit for it) thought it would be an idea to get a set of guidelines and tips together, based on things we'd seen and questions we'd had. (Yes, the inevitable question was asked – how do you write a book? My answer was the same as, I suspect, most authors – one word at a time, until you have a lot of them that hopefully forms a coherent text.) What was interesting, though, was the views of some people on the whole process. We started the process of collating this material, but the following is the top 4 things that came up: "I don't rewrite or edit as it spoils the creative flow." This came up several times. Quite simply, I suspect there are few writers, ...