Writing Rules
Suggestions from Elmore Leonard on writing: "Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle." All good stuff, if nothing new. I have a particular weakness in #6 (I blame comic books), but I'm doing better, I think, in #3-4, having finally overcome the advice I got repeatedly in high school to do find synonyms for "said" whenever possible.
Certainly, at the very least, a checklist to vet one's work against.
Comments
It's funny how these things go in waves. I've linked to this before over on the WiD (and the page itself has been around for years in any case), but in the last three days I've seen a link to it here, Making Light, and on Kottke. One of those Jungian things, I guess.
Posted by: Doyce | February 25, 2004 9:18 AM
Hill's Law of the Internet: "There are no new ideas, just new links to old ones."
Posted by: *** Dave | February 25, 2004 10:22 AM