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Patter
My tongue is the pen of a ready writer.
Psalm 45:1
How
To Write Good
1. Always avoid alliteration.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid cliches like the plague--they're old hat.
4. Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are
unnecessary.
7. Parenthetical words however must be enclosed in
commas.
8. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
9. Contractions aren't necessary.
10. Do not use a foreign word when there is an adequate
English
quid pro quo.
11. One should never generalize.
12. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once
said:
"I hate quotations. Tell me what
you know."
13. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
14. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than
necessary;
it's highly superfluous.
15. Profanity sucks.
16. Be more or less specific.
17. Understatement is always best.
18. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than
understatement.
19. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
20. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake. |
