Month: June 2015

This is a must-read guest post by Sarang Khanna who blogs at Wall of Wonders. He studies software and programming stuff. But what he pursues as a hobby is art and writing, which you can see on his blog.

You better check out his blog or I will never read any of your posts ever again!

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Writing is something you are not going to be able to avoid in any phase of your life (except if you are lost in a forest with nothing but your clothes on you, in which case I don’t see much need of writing anyways).

So what makes good writers different from not-so-good ones, you ask?

Here are the set of some simple yet elegant regulations which great writers have followed in their texts through centuries.

1. Don’t ever start your content with pessimism or you will never even in your dreams be able to become a good writer.
2. Don’t become too optimistic through your texts, lest people start enjoying so much that they abandon other writers completely and start reading only *insert your name here*.
3. Always, ALWAYS AVOID using capital letters unless it is an abbreviation.
4. Please do write abbreviations like r.s.v.p., d.i.y. ETC. in upper case.
5. Using parenthesis for remarks (even if relevant) is not welcome.
6. Avoid redundancy. Repeating the same thing over and over does not make sense. If I repeat the same thing over and over to you, will it make any sense? No? So avoid redundancy.
7. Procrastination is a writer’s enemy. I will someday write a post on that too.
8. The standard is to use only 3, so don’t over-use periods after sentences…………. Okay?
9. Why put so many question marks after a question???
10. Always proofread your article for speling and gramer chekks.
11. Avoid using over-long-phrases-connected-by-hyphens in your text.
12. Always complete your write-up – Don’t ever leave it incomplete.