Grammar Rules for Authors

By Alex in Book & Literature on Oct 6, 2008 at 10:02 pm

Miss Cellania has an oldie but goodie list of literary rules (the sort of thing that circulated on Usenet). Here are a few:

* Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
* And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.
* Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
* Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
*One should NEVER generalize.

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  1. nalden
    Oct 6th, 2008 at 10:48 pm

    Holy crap.
    UHF reference.

  2. Tempscire
    Oct 6th, 2008 at 11:44 pm

    “Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.”

    I think I’d be willing to take that one literally. No one ever made an understatement accompanied by numerous exclamation marks.

  3. Gail Pink
    Oct 7th, 2008 at 11:33 am

    Loving the Motifake Graphic as well!

  4. Orin
    Oct 7th, 2008 at 11:38 am

    You forgot one!

    Always avoid alliteration!

  5. Ali S.
    Oct 7th, 2008 at 1:54 pm

    Ha! Love that picture.

  6. ted
    Oct 7th, 2008 at 8:51 pm

    Orin, alliteration involves consonants. If it’s multiple vowel sounds, it’s called assonance. And there’s no rule about avoiding it.


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