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Aug. 20th, 2013
The Elmore Leonard rules
Aug. 20th, 2013 02:56 pmElmore Leonard has passed away at the age of 87. If you know nothing else about the craft, you should memorize his ten "rules" for writing:
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.
4] Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
5] Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
6] Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
7] Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
8] Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
9] Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
"My most important rule is one that sums up the 10:"
10] If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
Elmore Leonard said "If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it." His work was good. Very good.
The trick with any rules is knowing when to break them. There will be a deconstructive post later.
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.
4] Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
5] Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
6] Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
7] Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
8] Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
9] Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.
"My most important rule is one that sums up the 10:"
10] If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.
Elmore Leonard said "If work was a good thing, the rich would have it all and not let you do it." His work was good. Very good.
The trick with any rules is knowing when to break them. There will be a deconstructive post later.
Duelling quotes
Aug. 20th, 2013 03:02 pmElmore Leonard: "Alcohol never prevented me from writing. But when I quit, on January 24, 1977, at 9:30AM, my fiction got better."
Buffalo Girls:
(on being told a friend is too old to keep drinking whiskey for breakfast) Calamity Jane: and I'm too old to stop.
Buffalo Girls:
(on being told a friend is too old to keep drinking whiskey for breakfast) Calamity Jane: and I'm too old to stop.
The Web is full of Awesome stuff
Aug. 20th, 2013 06:36 pmFree download of 252 folk songs, covering about a century of music.
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Barbarossa's Bitch is nominated for a Rainbow award. And I didn't put it in!
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Men in Traditionally Female Poses
These are simply gorgeous. This is not parody, but rather very pretty men looking soft and vulnerable and open.
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The Internal Clitoris. Enough said.
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Pictures from the 1870s of the West. Timothy O'Sullivan showed the ruggedness and inhospitable wastes of the west.
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Adam Lambert covering "Let's Dance" with Nile Rogers and Sam Sparro.
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Barbarossa's Bitch is nominated for a Rainbow award. And I didn't put it in!
~~~
Men in Traditionally Female Poses
These are simply gorgeous. This is not parody, but rather very pretty men looking soft and vulnerable and open.
~~~
The Internal Clitoris. Enough said.
~~~
Pictures from the 1870s of the West. Timothy O'Sullivan showed the ruggedness and inhospitable wastes of the west.
~~~
Adam Lambert covering "Let's Dance" with Nile Rogers and Sam Sparro.