Elmore Leonard’s Rules, part 2

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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