11 Writing Commandments

I found some good writing advice yesterday from Henry Miller and John Steinbeck. Henry Miller's was labeled "11 Commandments of Writing and Daily Creative Routine," and Steinbeck had "Six Tips on Writing." The two sort of contradicted each other in areas, and not everything seemed to apply to me, so I pulled 11 out of the 17 combined that I really liked.
Here they are:
1. Work on one thing at a time until finished.
2. Don't be nervous. Work calmly, joyously, recklessly on whatever is at hand.
3. When you can't create you can work. 
4. Keep human! See people, go places, drink if you feel like it.
5. Don't be a draft-horse! Work with pleasure only.
6. Discard the Program when you feel like it--but go back to it the next day. Concentrate. Narrow down. Exclude. 
7. Forget the books you want to write. Think only of the book you are writing.
8. Write first and always. Painting, music, friends, cinema, all these come afterwards.
9. Abandon the idea that you are ever going to finish. Lose track of the 400 pages and write just one page for each day, it helps. Then when it gets finished, you are always surprised.
10. Write freely and as rapidly as possible and throw the whole thing on paper. Never correct or rewrite until the whole thing is down. Rewrite in process is usually found to be an excuse for not going on. It also interferes with flow and rhythm which can only come from a kind of unconscious association with the material.
11. If a scene of a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it--bypass it and go on. When you have finished the whole, you can come back to it, and then you may find that the reason it gave trouble is because it didn't belong there.

11 Commandments from Miller
6 Tips from Steinbeck