More Helpful Hints from Writers

Somehow, I came across this when surfing the web, from The Guardian website.

Ten Rules for Writing Fiction (Part One)
Ten Rules for Writing Fiction (Part Two)

It's tips on fiction writing, but as I was reading it, I kept thinking about how it applied to photography. Things like:

1. If you're serious, get an accountant.
2. If it's a good idea, don't limit your thinking if it's not working: be flexible.
3. Make something that you would like (write a book you'd like to read). 
4. Record moments, fleeting impressions, overheard dialogue, your own sadnesses and bewilderments and joys.
5. Bounce ideas off of someone else.
6. Decide when in the day (or night) it best suits you to write, and organise your life accordingly. 
7. Think with your senses as well as your brain. 
8. Honor the miraculousness of the ordinary.
9. Remember there is no such thing as nonsense.
10. Learn what criticism to accept.
11. Be persistent. // Don't give up.
12. Have a story worth telling.
13. Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in the edit.
14. You know that sickening feeling of inadequacy and over-exposure you feel when you look upon your own empurpled prose? Relax into the awareness that this ghastly sensation will never, ever leave you, no matter how successful and publicly lauded you become. It is intrinsic to the real business of writing and should be cherished.
15. Live life and write about life. Of the making of many books there is ­indeed no end, but there are more than enough books about books. 
16. Oh, and not forgetting the occasional beating administered by the sadistic guards of the imagination.
17. Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it.
18. Don't confuse honors with achievement.
19. Do not place a photograph of your ­favorite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide.
20. Do it every day. Make a habit of putting your observations into words and gradually this will become instinct. This is the most important rule of all and, naturally, I don't follow it.