[Salone]

Salone's tips:

1) Never take yourself seriously.

2) If you feel good about a piece, leave it be and come back tomorrow. Your opinion will change, you will hate it. Scrap it and try again. Repeat process until you hate it by the lowest amount.

3) Throw in jokes for yourself. Even better, throw in jokes for others.

4) There will always be someone better than you'll ever be. The trick is to never meet them.

5) If you do meet them, learn from them.

6) If you're going to be a Grammar Nazi, read your entire piece to make sure you didn't typo while claiming to be a Grammar Nazi.

7) Have a drink. Sometimes the thing telling you 'no' can drown.
7a) The drink does not have to be alcoholic

8) Writer's Block? What the crap is that? Just write, correct the thing you just wrote, keep writing.

9) If you want real opinions on your work, tell a friend you found 'this awful thing online by some dork, read this and tell me how awful it is.' It's going to hurt, but it puts a more critical bias instead of the friend trying to positively encourage you. If they like it, hey swell, you look kind of like an ass but your stuff is decent!

10) Don't listen to others' ways of writing. Results are not typical. Use them as guidelines and not blueprints. If they don't work for you, eff the system and try your own way.