#writing #noir: Writing Noir, by Paul D. Brazill

Over a DECADE ago, the DEAD END FOLLIES blog asked a load of writer types about the rules to ‘writing noir’. And this is the cobblers that I came up with:

Rules One to Ten, All Inclusive.

‘Whichever I Choose It Amounts To The Same. Absolutely nothing.’ Killing An Arab –The Cure

It doesn’t matter.

At the close of what is easily Stanley Kubrick’s best film, T…