From Cranky Rah's Cave: The Rules for Writing a Novel

Cranky Rah has been kept cranky and in the depths of her cave for the past two weeks by a non-creative editing project. Cranky Rah is now very behind on everything in life except for said non-creative editing project, which is almost (!) finished.

Yesterday, The Further Four came to visit the cave, but Cranky Rah has had no time to draft an astonishingly inspiring blog (or even an astonishingly uninspiring blog) about it because of—all together now!—the aforementioned non-creative editing project.

(Cranky Rah should point out, in case anyone associated with the non-creative editing project reads this, that the non-creative editing is for a Very Good Cause and that Cranky Rah enjoys editing projects very much. Even if her boss on the project, the Perilous P, disagrees with her on comma placement.)

Anyway, lest anyone fear that I have become lost in the beautiful dark depths of my cave, let me post the Three Rules for Writing a Novel, by W. Somerset Maugham. Here they are:

I love this quote. I gave it to The Further Four yesterday and told them this truth: There are millions of writers in the world, and lots of them enjoy telling other writers how to write. But there are millions of ways to write well and what's important is to find the ways that work for you and to not be bogged down by something someone else tells you. All twelve-year-old girls should take this to heart in many, many ways.

So go. Be free. Write.