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HOW TO WRITE GOOD1. Avoid alliteration always.
2. Prepositions are no words to end sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague.
4. Employ the vernacular ad nauseam.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbrev., etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
8. Contractions aren’t acceptable.
9. Foreign words are not apropos.
10. As Emerson said, “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
11. Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
12. One should never generalize.
13. Don’t be redundant; it is highly superfluous to use more words than necessary.
14. Be specific, more or less.
15. Understatement is insipid.
16. Exaggeration is infinitely worse than understatement.
17. One word sentences? Simple. Eliminate!
18. The passive voice is to be avoided.
19. Bad analogies are like feathers on a snake.
20. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
21. Who needs rhetorical questions?
22. Colloquialisms are grody to the max.
23. Abjure polysyllabic obfuscations.
24. Finally, chech for pselling errors and typeos.
3 comments:
haha! That's amazing. when I first read it, It took me a minute to see what was going on. My mom and I got a great laugh out of it.
Ya same here about it taking a minute.
Since I read it, every time I go to write a contraction I keep thinking "Contractions aren't acceptable." :-P
"Obfuscations"...HA!
Actually, some of these tools are extremely useful. You'll find them in quite a few good written works, but good authors know when to use them and when to avoid them. N00b writers usually don't knowk the difference :-P
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