These rules are from Mark Twain’s wicked 1895 essay “Fenimore Cooper’s Literary Offenses”, which is mainly a criticism of Cooper’s story “The Deerslayer”.
A tale shall accomplish something and arrive somewhere.
The episodes of a tale shall be necessary parts of the tale, and shall help develop it.
The personages in a tale shall be alive, except in [...]
It is no new thing in the history of literature: whatever is established is sacred with those who do not think. At the beginning of the century, when romance was making the same fight against effete classicism which realism is making against romanticism, the Italian poet Monti declared that “the romantic was the cold grave [...]
Thoughts give birth to a creative force that is neither elemental nor sidereal. Thoughts create a new heaven, a new firmament, a new source of energy, from which new arts flow. When a man undertakes to create something, he establishes a new heaven. — Philipus A Paracelsus
Don´t ask what the world needs. Rather ask – [...]
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