Writing maxims

Veeky Forums what are your own personal maxims that you keep in your mind when you're writing something?

Stay on point. Make every word count.

write well, not badly

I am here

Make sure it's perfect
Make it better than the authors you read
Make sure you won't hate what you write later
Make sure nothing you write will give anyone something to criticize/psychoanalyze/look down on you about

These are horrible axioms and are the reason why I very rarely write anything and when I do I destroy it immediately
I would really be interested in some better maxims for myself

Write what you love, user. You seem like the apotheosis of the insecure Veeky Forums user, maybe take a break from this board and just read for a while.

Ingmar Bergman got over his perfectionism by asking himself, not if a scene were good, but whether or not it was adequate.

Ideas are diagrams for the future. Build it.

That's a nice axiom. I'm gonna start applying it to my own writing.

Seek for brevity and simplicity.

what's your native language?

Arabic.

don't use a preposition with "seek."

I'll allow myself to masturbate once I finish this page

oh, you.

Write drunk edit drunk

Is it grammatically incorrect, or just unnecessary to use?

It's grammatically incorrect, so your sentence would be better written as "Seek brevity and simplicity."

It sounds weird. Seek brevity and simplicity is better.

All about the laconic innit

Thank you.

>All about the laconic innit

True.

It's possible you had it confused with 'search for ...', which would be correct
For what it's worth, 'seek for' has kind of an exotic ring even if it's not grammatical

or "look for".

yeah, it sounds almost King James-y. (almost.)

"Seek ye not for high astounding terms nor for unwonted length, but for brevity and simplicity."

[I'm the dude that originally corrected him btw.]

Dialogue is for character development. Avoid using it for exposition or plot unless it also shows something meaningful about a character.

Not sure if this is useful, but I'm giving it a try, at least.

King James... that's the guy that edited down the Bible, right?

tl; not laconic