1. The reader is a friend, not an adversary, not a spectator.Article continues after advertisementRemove Ads 2. Fiction that isn’t an author’s personal adventure into the frightening or the unknown isn’t worth writing for anything but money. 3. Never use the word then as a conjunction—we have and for this purpose. Substituting then is the lazy or tone-deaf writer’s non-solution to the … Continue reading Jonathan Franzen’s 10 Rules for Novelists