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Leela Bruce Kung Fu Fights Bad Writing Advice

Hel­lo.  I’m Leela Bruce, and I wel­come you to join me in my seg­ment: Beat­ing the Shit Out of Bad Writ­ing Advice.  Turns out there’s a lot of bad writ­ing advice out there that needs to have an encounter with my brick-break­ing side kicks and pres­sure point eagle claw.  Most of it could be good advice if tak­en with a fist full of dis­claimers and the redi­rec­tion of force that is con­text.  That’s where I come in!  I will cobra style clash with clich­es.  I will wipe out wives tales.  I will crane kick con­ven­tion­al wis­dom.  I will unleash bear style blows against blog­gers.  And my per­son­al favorite, I will demon­strate the Dim Mak drag­on on dead white guys.  I am on a “Kung Fu: The Leg­endary Jour­ney” style quest to find the secret lairs of bad writ­ing advice, and beat the shit out of it.

Leela Bruce vs. C.S. Lewis
Adverbs often get quite a bad rap.  Leela sets the record straight.  Vio­lent­ly.
Active voice wanks are assault­ed!
Eschew This! Leela vs. Richard Bausch’s Advice to “Eschew Pol­i­tics“
Going to the Mat With the Cliche Police (A Sto­ry of Good Gone Wrong)
Leela Bruce vs. F. Scott Fitzger­ald
Write What You Know: Most Mis­un­der­stood Advice Ever
“Fake it Till You Make It” Bad Advice That Does­n’t Mean to Be Bad
The Return of Leela Bruce
Yojim­bo’ing ALL the Dia­logue Attri­bu­tion Advice

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