Reading the last several comments have made me realise how out of my league I am here. L & C fanfic is the only stuff I've written (outside of work reqired reports) Nor do I have a background in things literary. (other than having kept my high school grammar text, which probably doesn't count <g>) So much to learn - which is very good, as Beverly said.
Having confessed that, you wonder why I'm posting then?
Well, first, the desire to express my appreciation for this thread. And second - a brief excerpt from an interview, which I just heard, with Elmore Leonard, on the radio. His new novel, Mr Paradise, has apparently been well recieved by the critics . He's one of the few 'thriller" (pulp fiction <g>) writers whom these guys take seriously.
Here's Leonard's comment which made me think of this thread. "Don't write what you don't need" in your story.
Of course, define, 'need'
( & note the double negative
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