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Pastimes : Laughter is the Best Medicine - Tell us a joke
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To: Barney who wrote (16191)9/19/2000 1:56:36 PM
From: Karen Lawrence  Read Replies (2) of 62549
 
Barney, here are a few more rules from "Keys to writing gooder":

1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.

2. No sentence fragments.

3. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.

4. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

5. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.

6. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.

7. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.

8. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earthshaking ideas.

9. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.

10. If you've heard it once, you've heard it a thousand times: Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly.

11. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
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