Comments on: Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of good fiction writing http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/01/15/elmore-leonards-10-rules-of-good-fiction-writing/ concept to publication Tue, 09 Mar 2010 18:50:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of good fiction writing « Fog Soup http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/01/15/elmore-leonards-10-rules-of-good-fiction-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-31093 Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of good fiction writing « Fog Soup Wed, 23 Jan 2008 15:57:08 +0000 http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/01/15/elmore-leonards-10-rules-of-good-fiction-writing/#comment-31093 [...] January 23, 2008 Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of good fiction writing Posted by Jim Kingsepp under Uncategorized | Tags: Elmore Leonard, rules of writing |   Source: blog.rightreading.com [...] [...] January 23, 2008 Elmore Leonard’s 10 rules of good fiction writing Posted by Jim Kingsepp under Uncategorized | Tags: Elmore Leonard, rules of writing |   Source: blog.rightreading.com [...]

]]> By: xensen http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/01/15/elmore-leonards-10-rules-of-good-fiction-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-30463 xensen Thu, 17 Jan 2008 02:37:42 +0000 http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/01/15/elmore-leonards-10-rules-of-good-fiction-writing/#comment-30463 Good one! Good one!

]]> By: Nancy http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/01/15/elmore-leonards-10-rules-of-good-fiction-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-30443 Nancy Wed, 16 Jan 2008 22:56:08 +0000 http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/01/15/elmore-leonards-10-rules-of-good-fiction-writing/#comment-30443 I knew that if anybody would make an opening with weather work, it would be one of the Brontes. From Jane Eyre - opening paragraph: There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of the question. I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened ..... I knew that if anybody would make an opening with weather work, it would be one of the Brontes. From Jane Eyre – opening paragraph:

There was no possibility of taking a walk that day. We had been
wandering, indeed, in the leafless shrubbery an hour in the morning; but since dinner (Mrs. Reed, when there was no company, dined early) the cold winter wind had brought with it clouds so sombre, and a
rain so penetrating, that further out-door exercise was now out of
the question.

I was glad of it: I never liked long walks, especially on chilly
afternoons: dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw
twilight with nipped fingers and toes, and a heart saddened …..

]]> By: xensen http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/01/15/elmore-leonards-10-rules-of-good-fiction-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-30366 xensen Wed, 16 Jan 2008 03:49:02 +0000 http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/01/15/elmore-leonards-10-rules-of-good-fiction-writing/#comment-30366 That's the one that comes to mind, isn't it? Are there really a lot of others that open with weather? Probably, but I'm drawing a blank. That’s the one that comes to mind, isn’t it? Are there really a lot of others that open with weather? Probably, but I’m drawing a blank.

]]> By: Nancy http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/01/15/elmore-leonards-10-rules-of-good-fiction-writing/comment-page-1/#comment-30348 Nancy Wed, 16 Jan 2008 01:22:56 +0000 http://www.rightreading.com/blog/2008/01/15/elmore-leonards-10-rules-of-good-fiction-writing/#comment-30348 Never open a book with weather? What - no "It was a dark and stormy night?" Never open a book with weather? What – no “It was a dark and stormy night?”

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