I just saw this on someone else's LJ and wanted to re-post it here. I hadn't seen them in a while.
Kurt Vonnegut's Rules for Writing:
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
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