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"I try to leave out the parts that people skip." - Elmore Leonard I read this two weeks ago and ended up nuking a 5800 word chapter down to 1800 words. In the script it had been important to have this big bolus of exposition because I only had 110 pp double spaced to work with. Following the script, that chapter was where the big bolus existed. But in the novel I'd been able to work it in without any effort or exposition whatsoever - it was all first person discovery. Fuckin' liberating - The book went from 192k to 187k in an afternoon.