14. At all costs–except for the rare, uncommon occasion where elaboration is essential to adequately delivering the significance of a situation in your story; at all times–except when to do so would severely limit portraying the full scope of your character’s intentions; and in every way–but not so as to trivialize necessary and vital details crucial to plot development, be absolutely vigilant to refrain from incorporating lengthy, tedious, and time consuming run-on sentences, which multiply repetitious, redundant, repetitive adjectives and adverbs, distract the reader, confuse logical thought processes and probably (much to the detriment of your writing career) will result in your audience giving up and moving on to a more comprehensible piece of reading material entirely suitable to his or her need (and desire) to ingest something quick, legible, significant and life changing in the shortest amount of time possible–thereby allowing them to go on with their day refreshed, encouraged and inspired–and only slightly scathed by your painful writing endeavour.

Help please!

Did I miss something in Rule No. 3 and Rule No. 10?

Firstly, I learnt not to use prepositions to start sentences. In recent years, I have learnt that they can be used. Same goes for fragment sentences.

Listening for some answers.

Regards.

15. Throw all the rules out the perverbial window…more or less.

I’ve read these before, but the collection that I have seen has even more rules:
Rules For Writers

1. Verbs HAS to agree with their subjects.
2. Prepositions are not words to end sentences with.
3. And don’t start a sentence with a conjunction.
4. It is wrong to ever split an infinitive.
5. Avoid cliches like the plague. (They’re old hat)
6. Also, always avoid annoying alliteration.
7. Be more or less specific.
8. Parenthetical remarks (however relevant) are (usually) unnecessary.
9. Also too, never, ever use repetitive redundancies.
10. No sentence fragments.
11. Contractions aren’t necessary and shouldn’t be used.
12. Foreign words and phrases are not apropos.
13. Do not be redundant; do not use more words than necessary; it’s highly superfluous.
14. One should NEVER generalize.
15. Comparisons are as bad as cliches.
16. Don’t use no double negatives.
17. Eschew ampersands & abbreviations, etc.
18. One-word sentences? Eliminate.
19. Analogies in writing are like feathers on a snake.
20. The passive voice is to be ignored.
21. Eliminate commas, that are, not necessary. Parenthetical words however should be enclosed in commas.
22. Never use a big word when a diminutive one would suffice.
23. Kill all exclamation points!!!
24. Use words correctly, irregardless of how others use them.
25. Understatement is always the absolute best way to put forth earth shaking ideas.
26. Use the apostrophe in it’s proper place and omit it when its not needed.
27. Eliminate quotations. As Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”
28. If you’ve heard it once, you’ve heard it a thousand times: Resist hyperbole; not one writer in a million can use it correctly.
29. Puns are for children, not groan readers.
30. Go around the barn at high noon to avoid colloquialisms.
31. Even IF a mixed metaphor sings, it should be derailed.
32. Who needs rhetorical questions?
33. Exaggeration is a billion times worse than understatement.
And finally…
34. Proofread carefully to see if you any words out.

Number 33 is hilarious…

Guilty (lock me up now) of number 8!