Advice for writers...

You think you can just write how ever you please but you can only do so up to a certain extent. Going beyond the grammatical and stylistic confines when you are a beginning writer (with hopes to publish) would be suicidal. If you fancy yourself a writer, you need to do two things. One, you need to read and read a lot. And stuff on the internet does not count. And read boardly. Don't just stick to one genre or one author or what is trendy (fuck Oprah). Read stuff you hate as well(if I have to read another Henry Fielding novel again... ugh). Where would english literature be if people flat out refused to read the ever predicatable and overly touched Shakespeare.

Recommendations?

Will Christopher Baer

Lydia Lunch

Charles Burkowski

Irvine Welsh

And for some classic work Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Got that part down? Good.

Second thing is more reading, specifically The Elements of Style by William Strunk, Jr. This is not only a review of the most basic grammatical rules for the english language but give you the great instruction on how to use voice, form, and style in your writing. You many know some of this stuff already but you may have also forgotten some as well.

Now go nuts.