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10. Do your research. If you are writing fiction that mentions real places or streets, find out about those streets or buildings and what's around them. Little extra factual details will give your work a sense of realism. Also if you're talking about antiques or fly fishing or whatever, research it, know a bit about it and try and use some of it in your narative.
11. Keep revising your work. Read it and read it until you are sick of the damn thing, then read it and revise it some more. Remember the first draft is the weakest.
12. Never kill your hero off in the first chapter, it makes for a really short book.
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