These are Kurt Vonnegut's Eight rules for writing fiction:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

-- Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999), 9-10.
Kurt Vonnegut: How to Write with Style

Orikinla: These are Kurt Vonnegut's Eight rules for writing fiction:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.

2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.

3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.

4. Every sentence must do one of two things -- reveal character or advance the action.

5. Start as close to the end as possible.

6. Be a sadist. Now matter how sweet and innocent your leading characters, make awful things happen to them -- in order that the reader may see what they are made of.

7. Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

8. Give your readers as much information as possible as soon as possible. To heck with suspense. Readers should have such complete understanding of what is going on, where and why, that they could finish the story themselves, should cockroaches eat the last few pages.

-- Vonnegut, Kurt Vonnegut, Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction (New York: G.P. Putnam's Sons 1999), 9-10.
Kurt Vonnegut: How to Write with Style

should add more to this and it should be submitted for front page. Will check for a lot of other inputs, thank you dear

*Taking notes*..

An0nimus: *Taking notes*..

HumbledbYGrace:

I'll write a story one of these days you'll see..Thanks Orinkinla

An0nimus:
I'll write a story one of these days you'll see..Thanks Orinkinla

can't wait...

I concur, especially the suspense part.

Please guys let's try to
Edit and revise our first drafts before posting, if we do that we might just need a little touch here and there. Not to just write and assume that people will do it for us, its very boring and drives people away from our work. Your first critic is yourself; you will need to go back over everything you have written and revise it to make it better .you will have a lot to fix. It's hard to let go, but sometimes even good writing needs to be deleted to move the story in the right direction. There might be huge changes that need to be made before you get to the next step.

My fiction has all that. It's a very interesting piece and I would be revealing it on NL and my new blog b4 the year runs out.

Since I lost 7 unpublished novels in transit, I am still lacking the courage to write another.
The rules are good and I was ignorant of some of them until I stumbled upon Kurt Vonnegut's rules.

Mobsync: My fiction has all that. It's a very interesting piece and I would be revealing it on NL and my new blog b4 the year runs out.

Please, don't delay publication.