January 24, 2011

• A little (very little) literary humor

  Avoid alliteration. Always.
  Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
  Employ the vernacular.
  Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
  Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
  It is wrong to ever 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.”

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