Looky there you found me

Not much to say - I'm Rumu; I read a lot and I don't write as often as I should.

This is taken from Phalanx's profile (if you're free check out Phalanx's stories; they're insanely good!):

There is one rule I follow above all else when it comes to writing. No it's not "Thou shalt spell-check", "Thou shalt not use purple prose or Said Bookisms" or even "Thou shalt not murder the English language".

No, the one cardinal rule of story writing for me is:

"Thou Shalt Not Be Boring".

Because no one reads a story for the beautiful language. All the writing technical skills in the world will do you no good if your story is boring. But if you're a skilled enough storyteller, readers will forgive you for bad grammar, typos and even crappy sentence structure. What they won't forgive you for however, is writing a dull story that they need to force themselves to read.

In the end of the day, we call ourselves authors, but for all the glory of that title, try and remember at the very core of this craft, that we are humble storytellers, and a writer who does not master the craft of the storyteller is but a scribe with no audience.