Writing doesn’t get easier with experience. The more you know, the harder it is to write.

Let the story tell itself.

In war you lose your sense of the definite, hence your sense of truth itself, and therefore it's safe to say that in a war story nothing is ever absolutely true.

What happened, and what might have happened?

Imagination, like reality, has its limits.

If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.

A thing may happen and be a total lie; another thing may not happen and be truer than the truth.