The Christian Science Monitor’s Shannon Roe revisits some tips from the great Isaac Asimov on how to be a prolific writer.
Note, that’s “prolific,” not “good.” As Asimov is quoted in the article:
“I can’t tell you how to be a good writer because nobody ever says that I’m a good writer. It’s always ‘prolific writer.’ That’s a polysyllabic term for ‘hack.’ “
I never met Isaac Asimov, alas, but I did correspond with him twice as a youngster. He answered all his mail with a postcard. My favorite response is the first. I asked him “How do I know when something I write is good enough to be published?”, to which he replied, “When it is published.”
As Instapundit would put it, “Indeed.”
