Stephen King
wrote: "Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries,
hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody
doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
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Regarding the 10 rules of writing, Elmore Leonard author of Get Shorty had this to say:
1. Never open a book
with weather.
2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb
other than “said” to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb
to modify the verb “said”…he
admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation
points under control. You are allowed no more
than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words
“suddenly” or “all hell broke
loose.”
7. Use regional dialect,
patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed
descriptions of characters.
9. Don’t go into great
detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the
part that readers tend to skip.
And his most important
rule, to sum up all the others: “If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
What do you think of
those rules? Agree? Disagree? Let me know in the comments section below.
