"The man who sticks to his plan will become what he used to want to be."

There's been a lot of heat-and-light going around lately on How To Write -- and by "lately" I mean "the past two millennia" -- and not wanting to be left out, for the benefit of writers everywhere, here is my own dogmatic writing advice manifesto based on personal experience. Note that of course this only applies if it works for you, however anyone who fails to follow it is clearly All Wrong and not a Real Writer^TM:

1. "Good enough" isn't.

This is my final pronouncement on the matter for the next decade. Now if you'll pardon me, I'll be over here working on revisions for a while. A long while.

---L.