Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing by Elmore Leonard

Author:Elmore Leonard
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780061843396
Publisher: HarperCollins

9.

DON’T GO INTO GREAT DETAIL DESCRIBING PLACES AND THINGS

Unless you’re Margaret Atwood and can paint scenes with language or write landscapes in the style of Jim Harrison. But even if you’re good at it, you don’t want descriptions that bring the action, the flow of the story, to a standstill.

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10.

TRY TO LEAVE OUT THE PART THAT READERS TEND TO SKIP

A rule that came to mind in 1983, at lunch with Book-of-the-Month Club editors. Think of what you skip reading a novel: thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in them.

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