(at Clarion West 1990, as recorded in an old Mead notebook recently unearthed):
10) A novel is like a river; trace it back to many different springs.
9) There is nothing like smell to awake memory.
8) Larger sentences in exposition. Shorter in dialog. Familiar words will always be perceived as shorter.
7) Each of you is going to die over and over You will get reviews that will rip your guts out. If you can't raise yourself, nobody's going to raise you.
6) When you doubt your improvements, you're done revising.
5) Add meat and a few carrots to the soup—not water.
4) When your characters are talking in your ears, you're not getting crazy, you're getting good.
3) All the joys in my life have always been Italian.
2) Have any of you spent any time in a pscyho ward? If you get a chance, do it.
1) I always wanted to be Link Hogthrob.
