About "rules" and other similar stuff applied to writing, I
recommend the excellent set of articles by Russell James
published in the British specialist magazine "Crime Time" (3
parts already published, and a fourth is coming in the next
issue). It's full of good sense, witty, documented... and it
was also mentioning the "skip" rule as an example. And it
speaks also about mystery writers and how 'they' wrote good
mystery novels...
HOW TO WRITE A DAMN GOOD NOVEL (in CT 44 - CT 45) followed
by: HOW *THEY* WROTE A DAMN GOOD NOVEL (in the latest issue
CT 46 - to be continued)
You will certainly remember Russell James, excellent British
author of HB/noir novels -most of them about the
underworld.
(In case you read French, there is a translation of the
articles in POLAR NOIR, at:
http://www.geocities.com/polarnoir/comment_roman_james.html
)
E.Borgers HARD-BOILED MYSTERIES http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384
POLAR NOIR http://www.geocities.com/polarnoir
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