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How to Write Good by Frank L. Visco
- Avoid Alliteration. Always.
- Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
- Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
- Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
- One should never generalize.
- Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
- Be more or less specific.
- Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
- One word sentences? Eliminate.
- Who needs rhetorical questions?
- Avoid Alliteration. Always.
- Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
- Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
- Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
- One should never generalize.
- Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
- Be more or less specific.
- Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
- One word sentences? Eliminate.
- Who needs rhetorical questions?