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Humorous Writing Tips
July 8, 2020
Humorous Writing Tips
By Bede
- Every sentence should make sense in isolation. Like that one.
- ASBMAETP: Acronyms Should Be Memorable And Easy To Pronounce, and SATAN: Select Acronyms That Are Non-offensive.
- Don’t patronise the reader-he or she might well be intelligent enough to spot it.
- Avoid unnecessary examples; e.g. this one.
- Don’t use commas, to separate text unnecessarily.
- Avoid ugly abr’v’ns.
- Spellcheckers are not perfect; they can ‘kiss my errs’.
- Capitalising for emphasis is UGLY and DISTRACTING.
- State your opinions forcefully-this is perhaps the key to successful writing.
- It is nice to be important, but it is more important to avoid using the word ‘nice’.
- Appropriate metaphors are worth their weight in gold.
- If you can’t think of the exact word that you need, look it up in one of those dictionary-type things.
- Nouns should never be verbed.
- Pick a font, and stick with it.
- Less is more. This means that a short, cryptic statement is often preferable to an accurate, but drawn out, explanation that lacks punch and loses the reader.
- Many writer’s punctuate incorrectly.
- Many readers assume that a word will not assume two meanings in the same sentence.
- Choosing the correct phrase is important compared to most things.
- The dictionary on your shelf was not put there just for affect.
- Steer clear of word-making-up-ism.
- The spoken word can look strange when written down, I’m afraid.
- Learn one new maths word every day, and you’ll soon find your vocabulary growing exponentially.
- A lack of compassion in a writer is unforgivable.
- On a scale of 0 to 10, internal consistency is very important.
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