Read this if you want to be a great writer [antikvár]

Introduction The Seed Every work of fiction grows from something. A thought. An image. A conversation in the supermarket. A fact. Sometimes, simply, the indefinable yearning to write something, even if you have no grasp of what it might be, or where that yearning is coming from. From this seed, anything might grow - the realization of which can be daunting, and feel contrary to the way in which you perhaps plan and control your work, your life. But if you open yourself up to the unpredictabihty of what you might create, then it can also be liberating - and one of the most important skills that a writer learns is to embrace and use the potential of the unknown. You would be unlikely to start reading a book if you already knew every httle thing about it, and the experiences of reading and writing are not so very far apart. They are entwined, in fact. It is important to remember that. There are no rules. It is important to remember that, too. Every narrative is as individual as the person writing it. One of the quiet pleasures of writing fiction is that each project spawns its own storytelling rulebook - of language and style, of point of view, of character - which nobody but the author can impose. There are, nonetheless, certain elements of craft to discover and to practise - to reject, sometimes - but, firstly, to understand.