This is a column I read in the newspaper a couple of days ago. It's a humor piece that purports to give advice to Bill Clinton, newly-minted memoir author. It has lines like this:
Detail: Be specific. Not "She wore a dress," but "She wore a navy blue dress from the Gap."
I thought it was funny but it's also interesting on another level because underlying the jokes, the set-up lines ("Detail: Be specific," etc.) taken as a whole form a very good collection of solid writing tips. There's even something from Elmore Leonard ("try to leave out the parts that writers skip"), whose advice was discussed here in this forum recently.
Adair Lara's column: A few words of advice for Bill
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