Amy, below, re Elmore Leonard. I read something fascinating the other day: the claim that Heinlein imported Hemingway's style into science fiction. (my own style, such as it is, is modeled on Heinlein, Niven, and Stephenson, which basically means 90% modeled on Heinlein)https://twitter.com/amyalkon/status/1308114563980640256 …
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2/ from Tom Simon's "Style is the Rocket" https://www.amazon.com/Style-Rocket-Other-Essays-Writing/dp/0995215413 … which ... has some good bits, but I'm not sure about. It's REALLY verbose. Reminds me a lot of John C Wright blog posts, where you get his point in the first, oh, I dunno, 3,000 words... and yet he keeps going
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3/ (I'm a HUGE fan of JCW's fiction ... I just find his blog posts to be long winded. Basically the same point others have about Moldbug, but for whatever reason I do enjoy Moldbug's essays)
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oh, LOL <blush> honestly wasn't trawling for compliments ; didn't realize!
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