Join me at HippoCamp 2022
I’ll be speaking at HippoCamp 2022 in August. This is a conference for creative nonfiction writers held each year in Lancaster, in the rolling farmlands of southern Pennsylvania.
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Elmore Leonard’s Ten Rules of Writing adapted for business communicators
I thought it might be fun and interesting to apply Elmore Leonard’s famous Ten Rules to business writing.
Anne Lamott on writing
“Don’t be afraid of your material or your past. Be afraid of wasting any more time obsessing about how you look and how people see you. Be afraid of not getting your writing done.”
Joan Didion on writing
“Quite often you want to tell somebody your dream, your nightmare. Well, nobody wants to hear about someone else’s dream, good or bad; nobody wants to walk around with it. The writer is always tricking the reader into listening to their dream.”
Terry McMillan on writing
“Don’t worry about how pretty the writing sounds, how lilting it is, and the imagery, and the metaphor, all that. Most readers don’t care. It’s the people in your book that matter.”
Ursula K. Le Guin on writing
“If a book told you something when you were fifteen, it will tell you it again when you’re fifty, though you may understand it so differently that it seems you’re reading a whole new book.”
Dashiell Hammett
Hammett’s stories were filled with unexpected turns yet had the inevitability of Greek tragedy.
His characters were nuanced to the point of complete moral ambiguity.