Do what you please

 From "A Swim in a Pond in the Rain."

The closest thing to a method I have to offer is this: go forth and do what you please.

It really is true: doing what you please (i.e. what pleases you), with energy will lead you to everything -- to your particular obsessions and the ways in which you'll indulge them, to your particular challenges with the forms in which they'll convert into beauty, to your particular obstructions and your highly individualized obstruction breakers. We cna't know what our writing problems will be until we write our way into them, and then we can only write our way out.

A student once told me this story: Robert Frost came to a college to give a reading. An earnest young poet stood up and asked a complex, technical question about the sonnet form, or something like that.  

Frost took a beat, then said: "you man, don't worry: WORK!"