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Sue Cauhape's avatar

Good lessons all. In essence, rite tite.

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Jeanine Kitchel's avatar

Ohh, excellent. I love Elmore Leonard. Thanks for this. Think I read it long ago and it was time for a repeat. And regarding overdo on words, on sending my manuscript to my editor. she suggested I cut 30,000 words (I almost put an exclamation point here . . . ) which I did. Took it from 100k to 70k. It being a thriller, it read fast as thrillers should. But there were tears and anger involved at first.

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