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Public News Post #1720

Twenty Rules for Writing Good

Written by: High Prince of Ulangi, Nighty Nightshadow Thalion, Conflagration's Wrath
Date: Wednesday, February 18th, 2004
Addressed to: Everyone


This post is, for all Aetolians, a helpful guide for them to write good.

1. Each pronoun should agree with their antecedent.

2. Between you and I, case is important.


3. Verbs has to agree with their subject.

4. Don't be a person whom people realize confuses 'who' with 'whom'.

5. Never use no double negatives.

6. A writer mustn't shift your point of view.

7. When writing, participles mustn't be dangled.

8. Join clauses good, like a conjunction should.

9. Don't write run-on sentences, you got to punctuate them.

10. About sentence fragments.

11. In letters themes reports and stuff like that use commas to separate
items in a series.

12. Don't use commas, that aren't necessary.

13. Its important to use apostrophe's in the right place's.

14. Don't abbrev.

15. Check to see if you any words out. 😉

16. Be careful to never split infinitives.

17. Never use a preposition to end a sentence with. That's a practice up
with which your reader will not put.

18. In my own personal humble opinion I think that an author should when
he is writing not get into the habit of making use of too many
unnecessary words that he does not really need to use.

19. Parallel structure will help you in writing more effective sentences
and express yourself more gracefully.

20. Last but not least, lay off cliches and mixed metaphors. They might
kindle a flood of anger in your reader.

In utmost admiration of the Aetolian language, I leave you,
Very truly yours,

-High Prince of Ulangi, Nighty Nightshadow Thalion.






P.S. Hail to Khepri, Lady of Mischief, Mirth, and in my hands, Satire.

---And if you don't understand or appriciate satire, don't bother
responding---

Cheers.

Penned by my hand on the 14th of Variach, in the year 122 MA.


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