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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