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Writer's Humour
Tips on How to Improve Your Writing:
- Avoid alliteration. Always.
- Never use a long word when a
diminutive one will do.
- Employ the vernacular.
- Eschew ampersands &
abbreviations, etc.
- Parenthetical remarks (however
relevant) are unnecessary.
- Remember to never split an
infinitive.
- Contractions aren't necessary.
- Foreign words and phrases are
not apropos.
- One should never generalize.
- Eliminate quotations. As Ralph
Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you
know."
- Comparisons are as bad as clichés.
- Don't be redundant; don't use
more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
- Be more or less specific.
- Understatement is always best.
- One-word sentences? Eliminate.
- Analogies in writing are like
feathers on a snake.
- The passive voice is to be
avoided.
- Go around the barn at high
noon to avoid colloquialisms.
- Even if a mixed metaphor
sings, it should be derailed.
- Who needs rhetorical
questions?
- Exaggeration is a billion
times worse than understatement.
- Don't never use a double
negation.
- capitalize every sentence and
remember always end it with point
- Do not put statements in the
negative form.
- Verbs have to agree with their
subjects.
- Proofread carefully to see if
you words out.
- If you reread your work, you
can find on rereading a great deal of repetition can be avoided by
rereading and editing.
- A writer must not shift your
point of view.
- And don't start a sentence
with a conjunction. (Remember, too, a preposition is a terrible word
to end a sentence with.)
- Don't overuse exclamation
marks!!
- Place pronouns as close as
possible, especially in long sentences, as of 10 or more words, to the
irantecedents.
- Writing carefully, dangling
participles must be avoided.
- If any word is improper at the
end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
- Take the bull by the hand and
avoid mixing metaphors.
- Avoid trendy locutions that
sound flaky.
- Everyone should be careful to
use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
- Always pick on the correct
idiom.
- The adverb always follows the
verb.
- Last but not least, avoid clichés
like the plague; They're old hat; seek viable alternatives.
by Kenneth, Shropshire, England