Advice from the dearly-departed

These are about short stories, but most should be applicable to novels too, I think. Regular novels, that is. NaNoWriMo novels should violate many, if not all, of these rules (in fact, if you don't come to terms with violating #4, you certainly won't finish).

Thanks to 2006 NaNoWriMo near-winner (>40000 words before quitting) Scott Lilwall for the link.