*new* This is a test. This is only a test. Had this been a real emergency, you would all be dead.
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Me- “Maybe I’ve got two muses – am angsty muse and a cheerful muse – and they killed each other.”
Her- “Cancelled each other out, huh? Or maybe they joined and became one crazy, psycho muse and now they’re stalking you. You just don’t know it. They could be in there right now, hiding in the dark shrubs of your mind.”
Me- “I have dark shrubs?”
Her- “Rustle, rustle.”
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“RAP = Retards Attempting Poetry”
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“If it weren’t for physics and law enforcement, I’d be unstoppable.”
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Do not put statements in the negative form.
And don’t start sentences with a conjunction.
If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a
great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing.
Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do.
Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all.
De-accession euphemisms.
If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is.
Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky.
Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.
~William Safire, “Great Rules of Writing”
