Warlord wrote: >Found this browsing through boingboing. I was amused. >Just passing it along. Page link is http://www.boingboing.net/ > >W > > > > > > >Elmore Leonard's ten rule for writers. Brilliant. > >10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. > >A rule that came to mind in 1983. Think of what you skip reading a novel: >thick paragraphs of prose you can see have too many words in them. What the >writer is doing, he's writing, perpetrating hooptedoodle, perhaps taking >another shot at the weather, or has gone into the character's head, and the >reader either knows what the guy's thinking or doesn't care. I'll bet you >don't skip dialogue. > >(this is my third link from Teresa Nielsen Hayden in one day, which has to >be some kind of record) Link (via Making Light) posted by Cory Doctorow at >10:09:25 PM > > > > Which implies that Leonard should have left out rules 1-9. Steve