Crime novelist Elmore Leonard joins forces with Mark Twain in Easy on the Adverbs, Exclamation Points and Especially Hooptedoodle.
Great advice from two novelists with some characteristics in common--humor, knack for dialogue, fine sense of story. Never mind that Twain broke at least one of Leonard's rules--he gets a pass because he did eye dialect so well, but Leonard's right that it's hard to read. Leonard hasn't written his Huckleberry Finn, to my knowledge, but I suspect that Twain would have liked Get Shorty.
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