The Only 5 Things You Need To Know About Writing

From Merlin Mann:

1. Set reasonable goals and honor them
2. Draft with complete abandon; edit with surgical precision
3. When you sit down to write, focus without distraction; when you’re not writing, keep it off your mind
4. Read great books (actual big books, not blogs or magazines) as often as you can
5. Just write, and just keep writing, and just keep writing, writing, writing. Then write more.