Let’s Talk About Writing: Exclamation Points – by Judy Penz Sheluk…

Posted on by Chris The Story Reading Ape

Every reader and every writer has a pet peeve.

Mine happens to be the overuse of exclamation points. In his “10 Rules,” Elmore Leonard says: “Keep your exclamation points under control. You are allowed no more than two or three per 100,000 words of prose.”

I couldn’t agree more, though there are exceptions.

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