Interesting list of Potential problems

So one of the books which I read last week had to do with mistakes made that make your writing suck.

“The 28 Biggest Writing Blunders (and how to avoid them)” 1992, William Noble. Writer’s Digest Books.

Here are the blunders:

1. Don’t write for your Eighth Grade Teacher
2. Don’t Complicate the Obvious
3. Don’t be a slave to a Grammar Guru
4. Don’t Freeze and formalize language
5. Don’t “Journalese” or “Slangify” words and phrases
6. Don’t Overuse the Thesaurus
7. Don’t Underuse the dictionary
8. Don’t Duck the punch in punctuation (???--what does that mean?)
9. Don’t wallow in a sentence straightjacket
10. Don’t write the perfect paragraph
11. Don’t get tricky and jazzy with style
12. Don’t add adverbs and Adjectives to prettify your prose
13. Don’t sprinkle the poet’s urge over the narrative product
14. Don’t let rhythm and sound turn sour
15. Don’t dabble with “smoky” words
16. Don’t expect the maid to clean up your mess--This one's for you, Nicole...
17. Don’t hug fad words without your fingers crossed
18. Don’t get cute with spellings and dialogue
19. Don’t wave away botched metaphors and cliché’s
20. Don’t passify your verb voice
21. Don’t hide parallelisms in the thicket
22. Don’t ignore intriguing italics
23. Don’t repeat without relevance
24. Don’t assume author absolutism
25. Don’t wrap characters in the same grammar blanket
26. Don’t shift to Neutral when mood and atmosphere change
27. Don’t underestimate the richness of the English Language
28. Don’t be afraid to make your own rules