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“I found this in the IKEA parking lot on Black Friday.”
Elmore Leonard: 10 Rules of Writing
- Never open a book with weather.
- Avoid prologues.
- Never use a verb other than “said” to carry dialogue.
- Never use an adverb to modify the verb “said” … he admonished gravely.
- 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.
Happy birthday Dorothy Parker! Born on this day in 1893. Poet, short story writer, critic and satirist, and a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table.
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There is a concept which corrupts and upsets all others. I refer not to Evil, whose limited realm is that of ethics; I refer to the infinite.
— Jorge Luis Borges, Avatars of the Tortoise, translation by James E. Irby (via frenchtwist)
Joan Didion
Like a man at the edge of the depths, attracted equally to the current of objects and the whirlpools of his own being; let us pause at this strange zone where all is distraction, distraction of attention as well as inattention, so as to experience this vertigo.
— Louis Aragon, Le Passage de l’opéra from Le Paysan de Paris (via frenchtwist)
Where would I go, if I could go, who would I be, if I could be, what would I say, if I had a voice, who says this, saying it’s me?
— Samuel Beckett, Texts for Nothing #4 (via frenchtwist)
