Thread: Elmore Leonard's 10 rules of writing
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Old 09-28-2013, 12:14 PM   #22
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Funny you should say that Rizla, I just started re-reading Hyperion, Dan Simmons' Hugo award winning novel. He doesn't mention the thunderstorm until the second sentence of the first paragraph, but that paragraph could almost be summarised as: "The night was dark and stormy ..." Also, this first paragraph was (drum roll please), in the prologue. Rules 3, 4, 6 and 8 are definitely are broken within a few pages. Arguably rules 7, 9 and 10 are broken too, but these are subjective items. It's a paper book so I haven't bothered searching for exclamation marks.

I think a quote from Barbossa (Pirates of the Caribbean) is in order (regarding the Pirates' Code):
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the code is more what you'd call "guidelines" than actual rules. Welcome aboard the Black Pearl, Miss Turner.
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