Develop a built-in bullshit detector.
Write the story, take out all the good lines, and see if it still works.
Anglers have a way of romanticizing their battles with fish.
A good life is not measured by any biblical span.
Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.
(World War I) was the most colossal, murderous, mismanaged butchery that has ever taken place on earth. Any writer who said otherwise lied, So the writers either wrote propaganda, shut up, or fought.