on Publishing … and Other Forms of Insanity:
Normally, I don’t like to give people advice about writing. I prefer to offer advice on how to get your writing published, how to deal with the publishing world, how to be a success. I leave the writing instruction manual to other less qualified people – by which I mean famous writers.
These are the people who get big bucks to tell other people how to write. Their publishers figure, “Hey, the guy’s famous. People will want to hear how he got there.” That much is true; people do want to hear how Stephen King, for example, became a writer. But do famous writers really know anything about writing?
Chris The Story Reading Ape's Blog 
I like your points. I also enjoyed Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’.
One of my writing teachers once said most of us must know the rules to break them successfully; the rest are literary geniuses.
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Substituting the rules of one guru for those of another is…rather silly. The one thing on which I agree with Stephen King’s ‘On Writing’ is that the best way to learn to write is to read, a LOT. Your subconscious will quickly learn what works and what doesn’t, which ‘rules’ to break, and how best to break them.
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Love this – I am a natural rule breaker!
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You little rebel, Noelle 😂🤣😂🤗
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Spot on.
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