The Juggling Author Podcast

Elmore Leonard’s Rules, part 2


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Let’s finish the rules:

* Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
* Never use the words “suddenly” or “all hell broke loose.”
* Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
* Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
* Don’t go into great detail describing places and things.
* Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

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