Monday, November 12, 2012

Demonstrating Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules For Good Writing

Elmore Leonard started out writing westerns, then turned his talents to crime fiction. One of the most popular and prolific writers of our time, he’s written about two dozen novels, most of them bestsellers, such as GlitzGet Shorty,Maximum Bob, and Rum Punch.  Unlike most genre writers, however, Leonard is taken seriously by the literary crowd.
What’s Leonard’s secret to being both popular and respectable? Perhaps you’ll find some clues in his 10 tricks for good writing:  

1.  Never open a book with weather.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. 

The ten rules can be read here, for those of you who didn't appreciate my joke. 

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