How to write good...

Because no-one reads this when they're my words, I'll steal someone else's..namely Frank L. Visco...

1)  Avoid alliteration. Always.
2)  Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3)  Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat.)
4)  Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
5)  Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
6)   It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
7)   One should never generalize.
8)   Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said " I hate quotations."
9)   Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
10) Be more or less specific.
11) Understatement is best.
12) Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
13) Don't be redundant. Don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14) Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
15) One word sentences? Eliminate.
16) Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
17) Who needs rhetorical questions?


I hope to incorporate these rules in my future writings so that you, dear reader, might enjoy them more and tell all of your friend about this blog so that one day, I too can get paid for writing as good as I can.