This guest column is from BookBaby, a writer's site with regular columns to help writers get published and write gooder - er, I mean, write better. The column I've referenced mentions some writing no-nos that I rarely see on this site, but they might be helpful to those writing their first story, whether vignette or novel. And I need to review them regularly to make sure I'm technically correct (the judgement on the quality of the story is the prerogative of the readers). Hope y'all get a kick out of them.


Life isn't a support system for writing. It's the other way around.

- Stephen King, from On Writing