Rules for Writing Pracitce

Writers have been challenged to follow these rules suggested by Natalie Goldberg. Natalie has written Writing Down the Bones: Freeing the Writer Within, a class text and Wild Mind: Living the Writer's Life from which this version of her rules is taken.

1. Keep Your Hand Moving
2. lose Control
3. Be Specific
4. Don't Think
5. Don't Worry About Punctuation, Spelling, Grammar
6. You Are Free to Write the Worst Junk in America
7. Go for the Jugular

(Of course these rules are for writing practice (generative writing) some may not apply to final drafts!)