1. Play around. Dive into absurdity and write. Take chances. You will succeed if you are fearless of failure.
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
2. The things that make you a functional citizen in society - manners, discretion, cordiality - don't necessarily make you a good writer. Writing needs raw truth, wants your suffering and darkness on the table, revels in a cutting mind that takes no prisoners...
Old Friend from Far Away: The Practice of Writing Memoir
3. How to generate writing ideas, things to write about? Whatever's in front of you is a good beginning. Then move out into all streets. You can go anyplace. Tell me everything you know. Don't worry if what you know you can't prove or haven't studied.
Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within
