Assignment One ...

For Friday, August 26, I'd like you to write about this topic: What were you taught NEVER to do as a writer? Come up with about two or three such mandates, and write some of your reflections about each one. Was this rule a good one? Are there sound reasons for it? Are there times when you can/should ignore it?


My first degree is in communications, so writing is something I enjoy.  A few things I was taught never to do ...

• Use a double Negative. 

There really is never a time this is a good thing to do!  And example would be: I did not get no ice cream with dinner.  EH!  Another example would be more of a verbal sentence than written, such as, The Sounds did not win the game against the Braves, no they did not! 

• Structure an incomplete sentence (subject/noun/verb/predicate)

I was taught structure was everything, and i remember deeply enjoying labeling and diagraming sentences in grade school (wow, I just admitted that!).  

• Use I and me interchangeably. 

I alway have to think about this one as I write.  The premise is that when you take one out, the sentence should still make sense ... Chad and I are married.  (I am married) not Chad and me are married. (me is married.)