I found these in a picture of a printed paper stuck on an office door.
The 10 Rules
- Avoid Alliteration. Always.
- Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
- Avoid cliches like the plague. They are old hat.
- Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
- Be more or less specific.
- Writers should never generalise.
- 7). Seven: Be consistent!
- Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
- Who needs rhetorical questions?
- Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.