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5. Keep your exclamation points under control.
Oh, and if academic staff don't reciprocate your exclamation marks and emoticons in emails, don't take it personally.
He recommends keeping your exclamation marks under control (you are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose) and never use any verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
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".
I ignored most of them... .. Leonard famously published his 10 rules for writing, which included such commands as "Never open a book with weather", "Never use a verb other than 'said' to carry dialogue" and "Keep your exclamation marks 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.
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