This week a child wrote to ask me for top tips on how to become a writer. When asked this question in the past, I've always said that all children are writers just as all children are illustrators: they do these things on a daily basis at school, if not at home in their spare time. The trick is to keep it going into the teenage and adult years. Sadly I was not encouraged at school, but I did keep scribbling in secret at home. I've always loved hearing from other writers on what keeps them going, and I've always loved lists, so Brian Clark's "10 Steps to Becoming a Better Writer" sum it up for me:
1 Write
2 Write more
3 Write even more
4 Write even more than that
5 Write when you don't want to
6 Write when you do
7 Write when you have something to say
8 Write when you don't
9 Write every day
10 Keep writing
Can't put it better than that.
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