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Money taints everything, why not writing too?

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A few months ago, you started your first blog. It was all so exciting. The words, the thoughts, the ideas, kept spilling out of you. You couldn’t wait to get it all up on the website, and see your followers liking and commenting on your great posts. Then suddenly… the wall.

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After a crisis of confidence, the Swedish pop musician – celebrated for dispensing nuggets of advice to fans – has learned some new life lessons of his own.

1. Write Daily. I had aspirations of writing a book ever since I started my very first blog. But it wasn’t until I got into the habit of writing 1000 words a day that I was finally able to write and publish a book. Not only that, having a daily writing habit enabled me to develop the skills that allowed me to finish a 45,000-word manuscript in 6 months. If writing 1000 words feels like a lot, start small. Do 3 sentences a day. In the beginning, what matters more than your word count is developing the habit of sitting down to write.

In the winter of 2010, inspired by Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of writing published in The New York Times nearly a decade earlier, The Guardian reached out to some of today’s most celebrated authors and asked them to each offer his or her commandments. After Zadie Smith’s 10 rules of writing, here come 8 from the one and only Neil Gaiman...

There are 5 words that weaken your writing. Whack them when you see them and increase the power of your prose.

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