Danyl A. Doyle

By Dr Dan Some writing advice arrives as a thick system. Kurt Vonnegut gave us eleven words that do more work than most of those systems put together. The advice "Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water." — Kurt Vonnegut, introduction to Bagombo Snuff Box (1999) It is rule three of the eight rules he called "Creative Writing 101" in that introduction. He also said great writers break his rules. He named Flannery O'Connor, who "broke practica