The Ten Commandments of Narrative
- Thou shall not infodump on thy readers
- Thou shall knowest thine enemy, purple prose, so as to best avoid its temptations
- Honor the word "said" above superfluous dialogue tags
- Thou shall not permit thy plot to lose its focus
- Thou shall not pad out thy work with filler
- Thou shall properly utilize thy setting in service of thy story
- Keep holy the integrity of thy story, for it is not thy personal soapbox
- Thou shall have a plot that is coherent, and not a series of random happenings
- Thou shall not defile thy thesaurus
- Thou shall pay homage to the written word by continuing to practice thy craft