How Not To Write

Where do you find your focus to write each day? Is it from the fear of failure (or success), or is it from the certainty that you are on the path?
David Seah : Getting Focused 03: Certainty and Survival
There are two kinds of focus:
Focus that Comes from Certainty — When you are certain [...]

I love the Zen posts about writing that I come across on my rambles. The remind me of Beckett at times. The nothingness of so much.
Spurious: Eternity
There should be a writing of non-writing. Someday it will come. A brief writing, without grammar, a writing of words alone. Words without supporting grammar. Lost. [...]

The Genesis of a Bad Idea
Awhile back, I decided to give up caffeine. That meant no more coffee, no chocolate, no tea (at least black and green), and horror of horrors - no espresso.
I class espresso separately from coffee. If you are an espresso drinker (and by this I mean true espresso in [...]

“The closest I’ve come to finding the writer I want to be is Flaubert, and he had syphilis.”
 - me

John Steinbeck is a close second. As I get older, I like to think he’s inching into first.
And how did he start? It was with a book about war. Seems like so many start [...]

I came across this list on boingboing. It’s labeled as no-no’s for fantasy and science fiction, but I think it applied to pretty much any genre. See how your fiction stacks up!
e.e. knight’s list of writing blunders