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Tom Clancy
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.I'm convinced he writes his story initially in the equivalent of a schoolboy's spelling notebook. Next, he takes a sheet of paper and copies out Sentence No 1 at the top then says to himself: "Now, how can I expand that sentence to fill this whole page?" For example, he finds it impossible just to say that a helicopter arrived...oh no...it has to be an Augusta Bell model 372K with modifications as applied by the Belgian manufacturer H K Kruppenstahl and specialist rotors as developed in.....and so forth ad nauseam. Then he does the same with every other sentence and none it is of any consequence.
Personally, you'd be well-advised to read almost any other author than him, John!