R.I.P. Elmore Leonard – you will be remembered (without adverbs)

“Elmore passed away this morning at 7:15 AM at home surrounded by his loving family,” announced his official website,elmoreleonard.com. Leonard was aged 87 and was the author of 45 novels, including Get Shorty, Out of Sight and Quentin Tarantino’s Jackie Brown (based on Leonard’s Rum Punch). But the author dubbed as the “Dickens of Detroit” also had a lot to teach other authors. In my own small way of honouring this great man, here is a copy of his “Ten Rules for Writers”, extracts of which I...