{"id":920,"date":"2013-08-27T18:32:13","date_gmt":"2013-08-27T23:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=920"},"modified":"2013-08-27T18:32:13","modified_gmt":"2013-08-27T23:32:13","slug":"elmore-leonards-rules","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/?p=920","title":{"rendered":"Elmore Leonard&#8217;s Rules"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-921\" alt=\"elmore_leonard\" src=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elmore_leonard-300x150.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elmore_leonard-300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/elmore_leonard.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>I&#8217;m a bit late to this, but it seems like a good time to link to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingclasses.com\/InformationPages\/index.php\/PageID\/304\">Elmore Leonard&#8217;s Ten Rules of Writing<\/a>, since it is one of my favorite &#8220;Ten Rules&#8221; out there (<a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/000906.html\">which are legion<\/a>).\u00a0 Damned if I can find a proper link to the actual full article\u00a0<em>Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle<\/em>, unfortunately.\u00a0 Interestingly, despite adverbs being specifically called out in the title, they are pretty much absent from the rules, beyond the one about modifying dialogue tags (which is good, since Language Log has pointed out, as they are wont to do, <a href=\"http:\/\/itre.cis.upenn.edu\/~myl\/languagelog\/archives\/004908.html\">that Leonard&#8217;s writing was pretty heavy on adverbs<\/a>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m a bit late to this, but it seems like a good time to link to Elmore Leonard&#8217;s Ten Rules of Writing, since it is one of my favorite &#8220;Ten Rules&#8221; out there (which are legion).\u00a0 Damned if I can find a proper link to the actual full article\u00a0Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-920","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-writing-things"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluecandlesociety.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}