Day VIII: Your Daily Compost

We’re all guilty of letting our prose get a little (dare I say) lazy from time to time. Here are the rules, in case you have been not remembering them. (Passive verb usage and weird negative phrasing all in one sentence. Egad.)

“Great Rules of Writing” by William Safire

  1. Do not put statements in the negative form.
  2. And don’t start sentences with a conjunction.
  5. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
  6. De-accession euphemisms.
  8. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.


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