Hello, friends. I was just tinkering with what I think will be the first chapter of Rivals in the City and thinking about Elmore Leonard's dictum, "Never open a book with weather." (There's a ton more writing rules here, if that's your sort of thing.) And I'm not at all sure weather should be forbidden, let alone the first thing Leonard chooses to condemn. The infamous "It was a dark and stormy … [Read more...]