Website review: Americanstate.org/vonnegut.html
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dasillynn rated 8 months ago- If your a writer, these are the rules to write by... actually confirmed by my OSU fiction writing professor, Peter McDonnel.
- smellyknee rated 8 months ago
- From the page: "Kurt Vonnegut Eight rules for writing fiction: 1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted. 2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for. 3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water. 4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action. 5. Start as close to the end as possible. 6. Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of. 7. 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. 8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages. -- Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999), 9-10."
- undersunandsky rated 9 months ago
- Very good advice. And now that I think of it... I love when writers follow it.
- Ragnell rated 9 months ago
- I love this advice.
- tankexmortis rated 9 months ago
- From the page: "2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for."
More than one story with great potential has been ruined by ignoring this rule. - From the page: "2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for."
- rikuboshi rated 9 months ago
- nice advice.
- ancazur rated 9 months ago
- Vonnegut is a genius in every respect.
- SysSpider rated 9 months ago
- I like suspense, I like guessing, I like Poirot... But it's all good advice in general.
- rudyneeser rated 10 months ago
- This is good advice.
- kathysart rated 10 months ago
- I like this, I do, but it was hard not to notice the typo errors. The advice is good though and I found it to be quite useful.
