Thread by @EdClowes

@helennianias For those who can't quite make out the handwriting (sorry @helennianias !), I will try my best to type them up in a thread below.

@helennianias 1) If you want to write - read.

@helennianias 2) Listen to your editors - if they want 500 words they don’t want your 10,000 word thesis on maternity care in Northampton.

@helennianias 3) Care. If you don’t care about your subject, don’t write it.

@helennianias 4) A little passion goes a long way. Retrieval of information doesn’t.

@helennianias 5) No one else has your voice.

@helennianias 6) Be nice to people you don’t think are at the top of the tree. Never look down on the multi-??? brilliance of ???/???.

@helennianias 7) Never think writing is about writing. Writing is about living. Live as much as you can.

@helennianias 8) Don’t look down on “the public”. Who are your readers then? Purity is elitist.

@helennianias 9) Networking is a pile of crap. You are as good as what you write - not who you know.

@helennianias 10) Writing is always ego/insecurity and a desire to change something some how. I believe we can change the world bit by bit.

Do it.

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