Novelist
Elmore Leonard gives valuable writing advice.
[Hat tip Stephen Hicks]Top two tips for mine:
- Try to leave out the parts that readers tend to skip. You know, the hooptedoodle.
- If it sounds like writing, rewrite it.
Bad advice for a blogger:
- Being a good author is a disappearing act.
A good novelist shold be invisible. True. Unless you're Truman Capote. For a columnist or a blogger however, being invisible is career poison -- if indeed there were such a thing as a blogging career path.
Be visible. That's my own advice to writers of blogs:
Let us hear your voice. And
avoid passive verbs like the plague.
LINKS: Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing - The Official Elmore Leonard Website
When Passive Verbs Attack - Peter Cresswell
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