You can solve most of your writing problems if you stop after every sentence and ask: what does the reader need to know next?

Never forget that you are practicing a craft with certain principles.

Never say anything in writing that you wouldn't comfortably say in conversation. Be yourself when you write. If you're not a person who says 'indeed' or 'moreover,' or who calls someone an individual ('he's a fine individual'), please don't write it.

Scholarship hath no fury like that of a language purist faced with sludge.

The most important sentence in any article is the first one. If it doesn't induce the reader to proceed to the second sentence, your article is dead. And if the second sentence doesn't induce him to continue to the third sentence, it's equally dead.

Writers can write to affirm and to celebrate, or they can write to debunk and destroy; the choice is ours.

A writer is always working.