{"id":6131,"date":"2023-06-27T14:58:30","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:58:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WP\/?p=6131"},"modified":"2023-06-27T14:58:30","modified_gmt":"2023-06-27T18:58:30","slug":"elmore-leonards-ten-items-to-improve-your-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wayneaenglish.com\/WordPress\/android\/elmore-leonards-ten-items-to-improve-your-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Elmore Leonard’s Ten Items To Improve Your Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\n
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E<\/span>lmore Lenoard is a fine writer. One of the very best. Here’s his ten suggestions designed to make your writing better. <\/p>\n

On a personal note, Elmore is one of my favorite writers. His work is published in books, of course, and many have been made into movies.\n<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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  1. Never open a book with weather.\n <\/li>\n
  2. Avoid prologues.\n <\/li>\n
  3. Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue.\n <\/li>\n
  4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said”\u2026he admonished gravely.\n <\/li>\n
  5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.\n <\/li>\n
  6. Never use the words “suddenly” or “all hell broke loose.”\n <\/li>\n
  7. Use regional dialect, patois (uneducated or provincial speech), sparingly.\n <\/li>\n
  8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.\n <\/li>\n
  9. Don’t go into great detail describing places and things.\n <\/li>\n
  10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.\n<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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