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Jason Pym

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I’m a British author and illustrator, and I’ve been living in China for the last 20 odd years.

My latest book, The Story of Chinese Characters《汉字博物馆》published in 2024 won China’s prestigious Bingxin Children’s Literature Award.

A Dali Sketchbook 《大理外传》about Dali prefecture in Yunnan province is now in its third printing, and continues to be well received.

My Goodreads ratings are purely based on a book's entertainment value, not literary merit (so pot boilers often get more stars than worthy tomes).

Ratings:
* I'll never get these hours of my life back. Not necessarily badly written, but really, really irritating.
** Not the worst way to spend the day, but not something I enjoyed.
*** Good, but I wouldn't recommend it particularly.
**** Great: Rea
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“There's no money in poetry, but there's no poetry in money, either.”
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“All that is gold does not glitter,
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The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.

From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
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“Elmore Leonard's Ten Rules of Writing

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2. Avoid prologues.
3. Never use a verb other than "said" to carry dialogue.
4. Never use an adverb to modify the verb "said”…he admonished gravely.
5. Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.
6. Never use the words "suddenly" or "all hell broke loose."
7. Use regional dialect, patois, sparingly.
8. Avoid detailed descriptions of characters.
9. Don't go into great detail describing places and things.
10. Try to leave out the part that readers tend to skip.

My most important rule is one that sums up the 10.

If it sounds like writing, I rewrite it.”
Elmore Leonard

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