Tips To Turning Your Life Into Literature

• Write about what you know. Dig up all that old dirt, then dish it.


• Write about what you love. Would Patrick O’Brian’s seafaring Aubrey/Maturin novels have been any fun if he was hydrophobic?


• Join a writers’ group. Monthly meetings with like-minded friends are a great source of feedback.


• Go back to class and learn from a pro: Meet your future competition in an adult-school course.


• Write to your favorite writer. Greg Kihn did.


• Best-selling authors Natalie Goldberg and Julia Cameron know how to coax fledgling writers into full flight; check out their how-to workbooks.


• The more you read, the better you write."

from Boomer 2.0