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Got this email today:

Hope this poem has the same effect on you

as it did on me - then my forwarding it will

be worth the effort.

Walk with me by the water - worth the read...

A BEAUTIFUL POEM ABOUT GROWING OLDER:

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Fuck... I forgot the words...

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How To Write Good

1. Avoid alliteration. Always.

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 & abbreviations, etc.

6. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.

7. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.

8. Contractions aren't necessary.

9. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.

10. One should never generalize.

11. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."

12. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.

13. Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.

14. Profanity sucks.

15. Be more or less specific.

16. Understatement is always best.

17. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.

18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.

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

20. The passive voice is to be avoided.

21. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.

22. Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.

23. Who needs rhetorical questions?

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Mont Saint Michel in Normandy. There is a panel of the Bayeux tapestry that shows William the Conqueror's army coming near to disaster in the quicksands you can see in the picture around 1000 years ago, with Mont Saint Michel sort of floating above the army.

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