How to write  

Elmore Leonard has some suggestions on how to improve your writing. Some rules are useful, others are not. It's an aesthetic that keeps the narrator invisible, for the sake of advancing the plot. Leonard has the reader's interests in mind, and a narrowly defined reader at that: the person who reads to be stimulated, entertained (the moviegoer). I wouldn't call it bad advice, but it doesn't exactly encourage literary authorship. I say, challenge your readers.