Nice guide. I bet I make some of those mistakes often. xD

Very Useful,indeed!

Thank you so much for this. It really helps a lot. Now I'll be sure to avoid certain transitions when writing.

Some of the best advice I've ever read.

Yet, it's still funny when I think about it. I honestly make many of these mistakes. Urg, I must try harder not to be so teenagerish in my writing.

BTW - The whole part that someone might actually methodically scatter limbs made me laugh. You've got a great sense of humor which makes this a great little piece to read and learn from.

"'The very important order of as I think of them'?" Does that imply that the ones you think of first are most important because they are most obvious off the top of your head? Or were you joking around with that line?

Wow, I learned a ton of my mistakes...woah...

Hahaa.. I think I did made some mistakes you listed here. :P

This is truly helpful and excellent, thank you for writing it! :)

Thank you yet again. You're full of helpful information, aren't you?

My thanks :)

Ah, you give some very good advice, I thank you (or should I say I almost thank you :P)

I love the way you have written this as well, a very witty way to get your point across. The bit about scattering limbs deliberately and methodically made me cry with laughter ^^

Thanks for the advice, it is very much appreciated, valued and I will certainly keep it in mind.

God Bless
Holli x

Very interesting essay.

Oh, I know my sins:
"2. Quantifiers."
"4. The –ing Mistake."
"15. Words like ‘just’, ‘even’ or ‘almost’ when used like ‘He just stood there’"

Granted, I don't commit these writing sins as often, but I find them in my fiction.

This amused me: "3. ‘At random’. In a real, published book (Robert Newcomb’s ‘The Fifth Sorceress’) I found the sentence ‘severed limbs were scattered at random’."

I swear I'm not a crazy stalker or anything, but I love you. especially this:

[but because of the inference that somehow, somewhere, there are severed limbs being scattered deliberately and methodically.]

the sad thing is, no matter how many times these simple things are pointed out to me, I go and do it again later. AS YOU MIGHT HAVE NOTICED.

Er. Caps lock. Sorry.

I hope you keep on writing and editing. You're excellent.

This is a nice, straightforward guide to some of the most common problems. I think most of these things every writer has been guilty of at one point in their development (or still are).

Wow, i was searching through forums, ran across your authors page, and the title really caught my eye. I find it unusual that someone would write something like this, but knowing that no matter how skilled you are, you can still learn something new (and boy do i need to learn).

I definitly agre with you. I've made most of those mistakes in the past, and some I made but didn't really think about at the time. This is very helpful for someone like me who doesn't really have anyone to proof their/my work.

Thanks for the eye opening insight ot better writing.

Well, I disagree in a lot of these. I also become a good write by mistakes as well, but this isn’t always everyone’s formula. If they want a teen as a protagonist or an antagonist, why not? That’s a little unfair there. I seen many good stories with teens, children, or babies as the antagonist. It’s as good , sometimes better, it really just depends on the writer themselves. I agree with a couple, but the rest, not so much.