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5. Keep your exclamation points under control.
In 2001, the New York Times published Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing, folksy but well-considered advice, and not only for those who wanted to write like Leonard: "Never open a book with weather", "Keep your exclamation points under control" and so on.
Leonard, whose 45 books include the bestsellers Mr Paradise, Tishomingo Blues, Be Cool and The Hot Kid, was also known for his rules of writing, which admonish would-be authors "never open a book with weather", "keep your exclamation points under control", and his "most important rule … If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it".
A bearded, slightly built man who looked a little like everyone's favorite English professor, Leonard held dear a personal list of rules for writing: Never open a book with weather, keep your exclamation points under control, and if it sounds like writing, rewrite it.
In his widely circulated rules of writing, Leonard said, "Never open a book with weather; avoid prologues; keep your exclamation points under control; use regional dialect sparingly; avoid detailed descriptions of characters, places, and things; and try to leave out the part the readers tend to skip".
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After a stormy meeting in Paris with Secretary of State Madeleine K. Albright failed to reach a cease-fire agreement early today, Prime Minister Ehud Barak of Israel and Yasir Arafat, the Palestinian leader, promised to order their commanders to pull back and restore calm to flash points under their control.
A group of six UAVs are flying from a start point under the control of ground control station N 0 ′ to a destination with ground control station N 1 ′, but experience a GPS countermeasure in the midway.
SOUND LEVEL Under control.
Consider using software that reports these functions or asks for a manager's credentials to confirm them to keep your business's points of sale under control.
In Figure3, a group of six UAVs indexed by 0 to 5 are flying in a formation from a start point under the control of ground station N 0 ′ to a destination with ground station N 1 ′ and a SoOP source G 0 in view, but experience a GPS countermeasure en route.
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