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Leonard even offered some wise advice to fellow writers, with his 10 Rules for Good Writing: Never open a book with weather. Avoid prologues. Keep your exclamation points under control. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.

Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. My most important rule is one that sums up the The camera cuts to Leonard and Gary Lee, a police officer. Lee gives Leonard a tour of the space, showing him seized narcotics, weapons, and other crime scene ephemera.

Leonard picks up an envelope containing a condom, firecracker, and a threat note. Swanson, his agent. The camera cuts to a shot of him working at his typewriter. He also makes videos of interviews and locations that he and Leonard can watch together. Leonard is visiting his office to get information on the bail bond business. James McGrady, a bail enforcement agent, talks about how he tracks down criminals who skip bail. After graduating from high school in , he spent two years in the Navy, graduated from the University of Detroit in and then became a copywriter for a local advertising agency.

Attended the University of Detroit, studying English and philosophy. Worked as an advertising writer in the 's, initially only sidelining as an author of western fiction. Said to have been influenced by the writings of Ernest Hemingway.

National Book Award for lifetime achievement The author's "10 Rules of Writing" have attained near gospel status for both established and aspiring writers alike: 1.

Never open a book with weather. Avoid prologues. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said". Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per , words of prose. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.

Avoid detailed descriptions of characters. Don't go into great detail describing places and things. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip. His style went down easy but could be hard to imitate. Informed of this, he described it as "flattering. After college, Leonard went to work for a local advertising agency, where he spent his days writing copy about cars and trucks.

His nights, however, were devoted to his own work: mainly westerns in the s. But Leonard kept his advertising job until , rising at 5 a. Despite his output -- and more movies, including "Hombre" with Paul Newman -- he said he didn't find his style until reading George V. Higgins' classic crime novel, "The Friends of Eddie Coyle. I started to use expletives where they belonged.

I started to open my scenes with dialogue. Higgins set me free. He also spent time with Detroit homicide detectives, where he continued to hone his ear.