To Elmore Leonard:
You said bring them out on stage,
your characters.
Have them audition in the early scenes.
Elmore Leonard. Image by John Levanen via Flickr
See if they start to talk.
And boy, did they?
That’s just what you did, Dutch, with your pad of paper
back when you
wrote copy for Chevrolet.
See the USA?
Yuma, Hamtramck, Cape Girardeau.
Detroit and later.
But you remained invisible, and you left out the parts
readers tend to
skip.
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