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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 & abbrevs, etc.
6. Contractions aren't necessary.
7. Parenthetical remarks (however necessary) are unnecessary.
8. It is wrong to ever split the infinitive.
9. Foreign words and phrases are never de rigueur and seldom apropos.
10. One should never generalize.
11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
12. Comparisons are not as bad as cliches.
13. Don't be redundant; don't use any more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous, not to mention redundant.
14. Be more or less specific.
15. Understatement is invariably wonderful.
16. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
17. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
18. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
19. the passive voice is not to be avoided.
20. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
21. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
22. Who needs rhetorical questions?
23. Unable to relate to anything, confusion arises from dangling modifiers.
24. Misplaced modifiers make your readers want to vomit in your writing.
25. Onomatopoeia isn't what it sounds like.
26. Don't never use no extra negatives.