Tuesday, September 3, 2013

10 reasons why people need to stop making this kind of list

1. Sometimes a thought or point requires more than one sentence.
2. Or more than a fragment.
3. One or more points on the list are really forced and not clever or interesting because the writer is just trying to fill up the list.
4. It's a lazy way to pull in readers.
5. It's overused so it's gotten harder to make the lists funny.
6. Just because you can make anything into a list doesn't mean you should.
7. Usually there are two points on the list that are really the same thing just worded a little differently.
8. Readers forget everything on the list the minute they finish reading it.
9. Two of the points are often the same but just sound a little different.
10. There's a big expectation that the last point be super witty, but it just can't be. Although, perhaps it can be ironic.

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