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Elmore Leonard's 10 Rules of Writing

01- Never Open a Book with Weather
02- Avoid Prologues
03- Never Use a Verb Other Than "SAID" to Carry Dialogue
as·sev·er·ate (\ə-ˈse-və-ˌrāt\) : to affirm or declare positively or earnestly asseverated that he did not know — G. K. Chesterton>
04- Never Use an Adverb to Modify the Verb "SAID"...
05- Keep Your Exclamation Points Under Control
06- Never Use the Words "SUDDENLY" or "ALL HELL BROKE LOOSE"
07- Use Regional Dialect, Patois, Sparingly
08- Avoid Detailed Descriptions of Characters
09- Don't Go into Great Detail Describing Places and Things
10- Try to Leave Out the Part That Readers Tend to Skip

"It's my attempt to remain invisible, not distract the reader from the story with obvious writing."

Hooptedoodle: inflammation of the story, caused by infectious or toxic writing and characterized by severe anacoluthon, embolalian engorgement, uncontrollable circumlocution, and runaway annomination.

Leonard is a popular American novelist and screenwriter. >more