What to avoid when writing:

I was always told to never put in any number before the final score.

 

What about knob gobbler? Does the same rule apply?

 

Was this intentional? Funny either way.

 

Fixed.

 

I never do it in my gamers, but I see AP do it in its first files pretty much every time. It's changed by the first writethru.

 

I'm sure that doesn't surprise you much though...

 

What if YOU score before or after the game? No go?

 

Well, we are supposed to print the truth ...

 

Not quite. Rendering it as a plural is *stylistically* correct, as per AP. *Grammatically* correct is something else entirely. "Heat" is a singular word, as is "Magic." Some papers choose to toe the grammatical line, as opposed to the AP line. That hardly makes them wrong.

 

yes, knob gobbler, goup gobbler, and especially oh giver of spit enimas.

 

there was this guy I knew that said win was only a verb. F#$% that S@#$.

He'd always change it in my stories.

 

I like this, never heard this one before. Very nice, TP.

Avoid extra words people often use when speaking, such as "the fact that" and other unnecessary phrases. Nobody would say I favor brevity, but I try to stay away from meaningless phrases such as that one.