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Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle from the New York Times, Writers on Writing Series. Being a good author is a disappearing act. By ELMORE LEONARD
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"...it's my attempt to remain invisible..."
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Never open a book with weather. If it’s only to create atmosphere, and not a character’s reaction to the weather, you don’t want to go on too long. The reader is apt to leaf ahead looking for people. There are exceptions. If you happen to be Barry Lopez, who has more ways to describe ice and snow than an Eskimo, you can do all the weather reporting you want.
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Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle
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Adam CutlerThese are rules I’ve picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I’m writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what’s taking place in the story. If you have a facility for language and imagery and the sound of your voice pleases
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