April 2011
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“Did you know that in the last 3,500 years there have been only 230 years of...”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer
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How to write good.
Avoid alliteration. Always.
Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
Employ the vernacular.
Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
Contractions aren’t necessary.
Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
One should never...
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“Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it...”
– Albert Einstein
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Comfortably Numb | Pink Floyd
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Bob Dylan’s answering machine message, summer...
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“They are a rotten crowd,” I shouted across the lawn. “You’re worth the whole...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby (via fuckyeahfitzgerald)
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Blue Blood | Foals
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