hearts so pure in this broken place
For fellow grammer nazis
HOW TO WRITE GOOD
1. Avoid alliteration. Always
2. Prepositions are not words to end
sentences with.
3. Avoid clichés like the plague
(they’re old hat).
4.Employ the vernacular.
5. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations,
etc.
6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant)
are unnecessary.
7. It is wrong to ever split an
infinitive.
8. Contractions aren’t necessary.
9. Foreign words and phrases are not
apropos.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo
Emerson once said, “I hate quotations. Tell me what
you know.”
12. Comparisons are as bad as
clichés.
13. Don’t be redundant; don’t use
more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
14. Profanity sucks.
15. Be more or less specific.
16. Understatement is always best.
17. Exaggeration is a billions times worse
than understatement.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on
a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be avoided.
21. Go around that barn at high noon to avoid
colloquialisms.
22. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should
be derailed.
23. Who needs rhetorical
questions?
By Frank L. Visco
:)