Writing Tutorial: You must do these things if you want to write well--Part 1

This episode actually begins part 1 of a several part writing tutorial, the top things I keep in the forefront of my mind and imagination as I write:

www.bondbooks.net

"I count myself one of the number of those who write as they learn and learn as they write." Augustine

Keep these things in mind as you write: 

1. Become a careful observer of people and events around you. "He is a great observer, and he looks / Quite through the deeds of men" (Shakespeare, Julius Caesar). 

2. Write down your observations. Keep a blank book handy for writing careful descriptions of people and places. Keep paper and pencil by your bed at night so that when ideas come you are ready to write them down--then you'll be able to get back to sleep. I have been writing in blank books since college...

3. “Reading maketh a full man," wrote Francis Bacon (1561-1626), "and writing an exact man.” ...

Next episode coming soon...