The complete rules for good writing

• A writer should not annoy half of his readers by using gender-specific language.
• Always finish what you star
• Avoid overuse of ampersands & abbreviations etc.
• Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
• Always avoid annoying alliteration.
• Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
• Always pick on the correct idiom.
• A writer must not shift your point of view.
• Avoid cliches like the plague - they're so old hat.
• Be more-or-less specific.
• Consult the dictonary frequently to avoid mispeling.
• Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
• Contractions aren't necessary.
• Do not use, unnecessary, commas.
• Do not use a foreign word when there is an adequate English quid pro quo.
• Do not use hyperbole; not even one in a million can do it effectively.
• Don't repeat yourself and avoid being repetitive.
• Don't use no double negatives.
• Don't be redundant; don't use more words than necessary; it's highly superfluous.
• Don't indulge in sesquipedalian lexicological constructions.
• Don't overuse exclamation marks!!!
• Don't repeat yourself, or say again what you have said before.
• 'Don't use unattributed quotations.'
• Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson once said, 'I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.'
• Eschew obfuscation.
• Employ the vernacular.
• Everyone should be careful to use a singular pronoun with singular nouns in their writing.
• Exaggeration is a million times worse than understatement.
• Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
• Hopefully, you will use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
• It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
• If you reread and reread your work and reread it again to weed out the weeds of repetition.
• If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
• It behooves you to avoid archaic expressions.
• It is recommended that measures should be taken to ensure that the length of sentences is not excessive and that the complexity of said sentences is reduced.
• Never use a big word where a diminutive alternative would suffice.
• No sentence fragments.
• Never use two words where a single expression will do.
• One should never generalize.
• One-word sentences? Eliminate. Always!
• Parenthetical marks, however relevant, are unnecessary.
• Parenthetical words like these should be enclosed in commas.
• Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.
• Place pronouns as close as possible, especially in long sentences, as of ten or more words, to their antecedents.
• Placing a comma between subject and predicate, is not correct.
• Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
• Refrain from being indirect.
• Subject and verb always has to agree.
• The recommendation is for the use of verbs rather than nouns.
• Take the bull by the hand and avoid mixed metaphors.
• The passive voice is to be ignored and should not be used.
• Understatement is always best by far.
• Use the apostrophe in it's proper place and omit it when its not needed.
• Use youre spell chekker to avoid mispelling and to catch typographical errers; thay always get it write.
• When dangling, watch you participles.
• Who needs rhetorical questions?