Learn To Breathe

It is very tempting to bang out a lot of text and hit save. I know because I've done it. I still do sometimes.

The trick for stylish articles is to read it out and only stop for breath a Full Stop.

Most of us find that we run out of breath on our "better attempts". I sometimes find that when I come back to a passage I have trouble understanding what I worte. Sometimes just a few minuets after I wrote it.

The trick is to try not to use this fellow: the comma ,

This forces you to write short sentences. This makes easier reading. It makes simpler writing. It makes your page snappy and contempory. It's good. Really.

As a "rule of thumb" you can often use Full Stop in most place you would use a comma.

With a little practice, you should be able to breathe most times you read back your own work to yourself.

You can also help yourself out with The Law of Brackets. With TLoB anything in brackets can be left out without hurting the meaning. So leave it out and make a sentence of it in a moment. Some stuff with commas can go in brackets... so out it goes. Give it it's own sentence.

It's as easy as breathing.

Honest.

Last, but not least, : learn to love your enter button. (by the way this bracketed bit and the bit in commas in the sentence before could go without harm.)

Your enter button is your best friend (along with the full stop).

In many people's writting a simple script to make the commas Full Stops and the original Full Stops new lines would make the writting simpler to read.

Now I'm not saying let's all be English Teachers but we should at least show the world that Neopet owners are a right impressive bunch.