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Author Zadie Smith’s Rules for Writers

1) When still a child, make sure you read a lot of books. Spend more time doing this than anything else.

2) When an adult, try to read your own work as a stranger would read it, or even better, as an enemy would.

3) Don’t romanticise your “vocation”. You can either write good sentences or you can’t. There is no “writer’s lifestyle”. All that matters is what you leave on the page.

4) Avoid your weaknesses. But do this without telling yourself that the things you can’t do aren’t worth doing. Don’t mask self-doubt with contempt.

5) Leave a decent space of time between writing something and editing it.

6) Avoid cliques, gangs, groups. The presence of a crowd won’t make your writing any better than it is.

7) Work on a computer that is disconnected from the ­internet.

8) Protect the time and space in which you write. Keep everybody away from it, even the people who are most important to you.

9) Don’t confuse honours with achievement.

10) Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand – but tell it. Resign yourself to the lifelong sadness that comes from never ­being satisfied.

Undoubtedly one of the prettiest woman in film ever!

It started when it stopped raining. I walked away from the balcony and dived into my laptop to see if they were coming already. The posts were there and tweets announced he was already near. The blog was the first one we used, giving hints, sharing related thoughts. Then came the videos… Man, we missed our chance with more of them, but I don’t quite regret it. Then networking and everyone was making another part of our shared little world. The phone is ringing, what if something really happend? Oh, it’s raining again, we’ll have to start all over. Again. Again.