https://staging2.theplaylist.net/r-i-p-elmore-leonard-1925-2013-20130820/ Fri, 13 May 2016 09:14:52 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.2 https://staging2.theplaylist.net/r-i-p-elmore-leonard-1925-2013-20130820/#comment-47370 Fri, 13 May 2016 09:14:52 +0000 http://www.indiewire.com/2013/more/uncategorized/r-i-p-elmore-leonard-1925-2013-94658/#comment-47370 I read one of his books years ago.
His style is very direct & clear, no nonsense.
His dialog would be phrases put together with commas, they didn't have to follow strict grammar, but they were rythmic & flowed. Learned a lot from him.
At 5:40 of the video he says writing is rewriting. Nice.

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