{"id":443,"date":"2012-03-06T12:40:00","date_gmt":"2012-03-05T23:40:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=443"},"modified":"2012-03-06T12:40:01","modified_gmt":"2012-03-05T23:40:01","slug":"a-lesson-from-elmore-leonard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=443","title":{"rendered":"A lesson from Elmore Leonard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?attachment_id=442\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-442\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-442\" title=\"ElmoreLeonard\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ElmoreLeonard-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ElmoreLeonard-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ElmoreLeonard-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/ElmoreLeonard.jpg 342w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Recently, I was given a rather substantial document to read.\u00a0 It was just short of 80 pages long \u2013 most of it text.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018This is going to take me a moment or two to read,\u2019 I said.<\/p>\n<p>\u2018Well, you can probably skip quite a bit of it,\u2019 the author replied.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, really?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m pretty sure that it was Elmore Leonard who, when asked how he managed to keep the action in his books moving so quickly, said: \u2018I leave out the parts that people skip.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>At KiwiStreet, we find this strategy also works well when it comes to writing proposals, project summaries, and reports.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Leaving out the parts that people skip helps both the reader and the writer.\u00a0 It helps the writer to think about what is important, and to express what is important clearly and succinctly.\u00a0 And it saves the reader time, and helps to ensure that he or she doesn\u2019t skip any of the important bits.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently, I was given a rather substantial document to read.\u00a0 It was just short of 80 pages long \u2013 most of it text. \u2018This is going to take me a moment or two to read,\u2019 I said. \u2018Well, you can &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/?p=443\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":448,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.kiwistreet.co.nz\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}