JessieLong
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Stupid li'l advices.
These one tend to pop up on various sites, so...
Avoid Alliteration. Always.
Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat.)
Employ the vernacular.
Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are unnecessary.
It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
Contractions aren’t necessary.
Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
One should never generalize.
Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
Don’t be redundant; don’t use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
Profanity sucks.
Be more or less specific.
Understatement is always best.
Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
One word sentences? Eliminate.
Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
The passive voice is to be avoided.
Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
Even if a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
Who needs rhetorical questions?
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Writing: Dragon Age: Made in Orlais
Backburner: Electric Ladythief, Scion and Ratface; The Rose and the Sword; Dragon Age: The Age of Grey
Current project: Getting my old written stuff in digital form and translate it to English
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5/26/2011, 6:03 pm
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Reythia
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Re: Stupid li'l advices.
Haha! 
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5/26/2011, 6:18 pm
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QS2
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Re: Stupid li'l advices.
Nice. 
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5/26/2011, 7:13 pm
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Pastor Rick
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Re: Stupid li'l advices.
What's profanity? I see it at times but I never use it myself which makes my putting it into a scene very difficult. I really don't know how to speak it or write it or when it is proper...
Yes I am serious.
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5/26/2011, 8:24 pm
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JessieLong
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Re: Stupid li'l advices.
Uh. Based on Webster's Dictionary:
profanity [prəˈfænɪtɪ]
n pl -ties
1. The sum of vocal expletives you utter on occasion when you hit your hand by accident with a large hammer.
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Writing: Dragon Age: Made in Orlais
Backburner: Electric Ladythief, Scion and Ratface; The Rose and the Sword; Dragon Age: The Age of Grey
Current project: Getting my old written stuff in digital form and translate it to English
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5/26/2011, 8:36 pm
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Pastor Rick
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Re: Stupid li'l advices.
If you ever see something that looks like it should be profanity please feel free to tell me how I should have said it in the story. 
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5/26/2011, 8:40 pm
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QS2
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Re: Stupid li'l advices.
Do those moments actually exist? 
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5/26/2011, 9:16 pm
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Pastor Rick
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Re: Stupid li'l advices.
Generally I just have the character "swear" or something like that without going into the details...
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5/27/2011, 3:24 am
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David Meadows
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Re: Stupid li'l advices.
I think you missed off:
Eschew obfuscation.
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God gave rock and roll to you
Gave rock and roll to you
Put it in the soul of everyone
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5/27/2011, 11:18 am
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