Label: Elmore Leonard

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Elmore Leonard Was Wrong

I really don’t want to take on Elmore Leonard. The man is a national treasure.  I agree with almost everything he says.  But there’s just one thing . . . It began back in 2001 when he wrote an almost completely dead-on accurate list of 10 Rules for Writers for the NY Times’ “Writers on Writing” series. It’s gone viral ever since – largely because it is, in fact, dead-on accurate. That’s how I felt when I first read it. … More

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