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HEINLEIN’S RULES Five Simple Business Rules for Writing CHAPTER EIGHT On to the fifth rule. Rule #5: You Must Keep It On the Market Until Sold. “It” in the rule refers to your story or novel. In 1947, when Heinlein wrote this rule, for the most part the only markets were pulp magazines. Paperbacks […]
HEINLEIN’S RULES Five Simple Business Rules for Writing CHAPTER SEVEN On to the fourth rule. Rule #4: You Must Put It On the Market. “It” in the rule refers to your finished and not rewritten story or novel. On the surface, this rule is very, very basic. And yet it was this rule that I […]
HEINLEIN’S RULES Five Simple Business Rules for Writing CHAPTER SIX Continuing with the third rule. Rule #3: You Must Refrain From Rewriting Unless to Editorial Order. I wanted to go at this rule one more time to make sure I’ve been clear. Most of the time, in this modern world, rewriting is when you do […]
HEINLEIN’S RULES Five Simple Business Rules for Writing CHAPTER FIVE Moving now to the third rule. Rule #3: You Must Refrain From Rewriting Unless to Editorial Order. So this is the rule that gets all the attention here in the modern world, even though it is the first two rules that stop most want-to-be writers. […]
HEINLEIN’S RULES Five Simple Business Rules for Writing CHAPTER FOUR Moving now to the second rule. Rule #2: You Must Finish What You Write. Say 9 out of 10 people who claim they want to write are wiped out by Rule #1 because they “just can’t find the time.” If that is the case, then […]
HEINLEIN’S RULES Five Simple Business Rules for Writing CHAPTER THREE Still working on rule number one. Rule #1: You Must Write. Back in 1982, when I climbed onto my challenge to use Heinlein’s Rules and write a story per week and mail each story every week, I had one major issue that I fought. […]
HEINLEIN’S RULES Five Simple Business Rules for Writing CHAPTER ONE For lack of a better way of putting it, Heinlein’s Rules allow you to get to the fun of being a writer. They also help us all remember we are entertainers. About a decade or so ago, I was asked by a professor of […]
HEINLEIN’S RULES Five Simple Business Rules for Writing Introduction In almost 150 published novels (over one hundred with traditional publishers), I have always followed Heinlein’s Business Rules. And in hundreds and hundreds of short stories, I have followed the five rules as well. For well over thirty years now, actually, I have done my […]