David Brin, one of those authors we’re blessed with who does excellent nonfiction as well as SF, has an article up at his website offering advice to aspiring writers. Pieced together from his own answers to questions he finds in his mailbag, it includes writing tips and tricks, approaches to criticism, and Brin’s own feelings about art: “Art may be essential and deeply human, but it ain’t rare. What’s rare is honesty.”