Writer's Block

For anyone who gets confused about proper grammar and style in writing, we offer, from the Internet, the followign tip sheet, "How to Write Good":

- It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
- Contractions aren't necessary
- The passive voice is to be avoided.
- Prepositions are not the words to end sentences with.
- Be more or less specific.
- Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
- One-word sentences? Eliminate.
- Who needs rhetorical questions?
- Exaggerration is a billion times worse than understatement.

- from Reader's Digest, August 2002