Friday Feature: My Favorite Thing I Read this Week and Why

Or, Things Not toDo to Make Things Worth Doing

Not a well-structured sentence, I know. This title illustrates today's post topic, however. We look forward to Fridays: end of the week, weekend activities in sight, and discussing the favorite thing we read. For more reading fun on Fridays, pop over to FridayReads on FB (#fridayreads on Twitter).

[image error] Thank you Ultimate Blog Challenge for bringing some new blogs into my reading universe. Grammar nerd that I am, I particularly enjoyed two posts from Putting Words to Paper this week: You Can't Just Use Spell Check and My Biggest Writing Pet-Peeves. In both posts, Tiffany Jansen bullet points the need for proper punctuation and correct spelling. Two very important elements of writing. Writing is an art. We don't want to muck it up with less than stellar paint brushes.

This week I also stumbled across this quote:

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"Well said. There's a lot to learn from Safire's points and humorous presentation. How much do spelling mistakes, poor grammar, and punctuation errors turn you off from an otherwise great read?