Rules for writers

[えっちーせんぱい]

1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don't start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They're old hat)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren't necessary and shouldn't be used.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
14. One should NEVER generalize.
15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
16. Don't use no double negatives.
17. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be ignored.
21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.
22. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
23. Kill all exclamation points!!!
24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth shaking ideas.
26. Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
27. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, "I hate quotations. Tell me what you know."
28. 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.
29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
31. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
32. Who needs rhetorical questions?
33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
34. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

I'm bored, leave me alone please.

[Kaz]

I seem to recall reading this list before.

[えっちーせんぱい]

I seem to recall reading this list before.

You, spend too much time, looking, for these things, then.

[Chain Chompesque]

Hello, everyone, this is Chain here to tell you that this topic wins!

[Tupin]

I laugh at the improper use of "has" in the FIRST HINT. :|

[Zovistograt]

I laugh at the improper use of "has" in the FIRST HINT. :|

I hope you're being sarcastic.

[sonicdude164]

I seem to recall reading this list before.

So have I

I laugh at the improper use of "has" in the FIRST HINT. :|

I hope you're being sarcastic.

So do I

[Tupin]

I think you can say it either way, I guess.

[Rius]

I remember this. It's still funny. XD

These always make me laugh:



    Her face was a perfect oval, like a circle that had its two other sides gently compressed by a Thigh Master.

    His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free.

    She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again.

    The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't.

    McMurphy fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty bag filled with vegetable soup.

    Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze.

    Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center.

    Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever.

    He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree.

    The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease.

    Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph.

    The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr. Pepper can.

    They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth.

    John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met.

    The thunder was ominous sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play.

    The red brick wall was the color of a brick-red Crayola crayon.

    He fell for her like his heart was a mob informant and she was the East River.

    Even in his last years, Grandpappy had a mind like a steel trap, only one that had been left out so long it had rusted shut.

    The door had been forced, as forced as the dialogue during the interview portion of "Jeopardy!"

    Shots rang out, as shots are wont to do.

    The plan was simple, like my brother-in-law Phil. But unlike Phil, this plan just might work.

    The young fighter had a hungry look, the kind you get from not eating for a while.

    "Oh, Jason, take me!" she panted, her breasts heaving like a college freshman on $1-a-beer night.

    He was as lame as a duck. Not the metaphorical lame duck either, but a real duck that was actually lame. Maybe from stepping on a land mine or something.

    Her artistic sense was exquisitely refined, like someone who can tell butter from "I Can't Believe It's Not Butter."

    She had a deep, throaty, genuine laugh, like that sound a dog makes just before it throws up.

    It came down the stairs looking very much like something no one had ever seen before.

    The knife was as sharp as the tone used by Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Tex.) in her first several points of parliamentary procedure made to Rep. Henry Hyde (R-Ill.) in the House Judiciary Committee hearings on the impeachment of President William Jefferson Clinton.

    The ballerina rose gracefully en pointe and extended one slender leg behind her, like a dog at a fire hydrant.

    The revelation that his marriage of 30 years had disintegrated because of his wife's infidelity came as a rude shock, like a surcharge at a formerly surcharge-free ATM.

    The dandelion swayed in the gentle breeze like an oscillating electric fan set on medium.

    It was an American tradition, like fathers chasing kids around with power tools.

    He was deeply in love. When she spoke, he thought he heard bells, as if she were a garbage truck backing up.

    She was as easy as the "TV Guide" crossword.

    Her eyes were like limpid pools, only they had forgotten to put in any pH cleanser.

    She grew on him like she was a colony of E. coli and he was room-temperature Canadian beef.

    She walked into my office like a centipede with 98 missing legs.

    Her voice had that tense, grating quality, like a first-generation thermal paper fax machine that needed a band tightened.

    It hurt the way your tongue hurts after you accidentally staple it to the wall.

    Every minute without you feels like 60 seconds.

    The horizon swallowed the setting sun like a dog sucking an egg, but not quite.

[…]

Maybe you should take a better look at number 35.

[Friendly Hostile]

Ah copy pasta.  It never is new.

[JMV]

I seem to recall reading this list before.

You, spend too much time, looking, for these things, then.

:O,