From the creator of the Internet sensation, "How To Write Good," as originally published in the page Visco's cousin.)
When Frank LaPosta Visco created “How to Write Good” and its sequels for Writer's Digest, he never imagined that the “rules that break themselves” would become such a popular internet phenomenon. It's quoted and posted on humor anthologies, and e-mailed countless times to word lovers (and word-haters) around the world. Some people even love it so much, they take my name off and insert theirs. His
lawyer's working on that. – it is his intellectual, copyrighted property, after all, and has been since 1986
His original “How to Write Good” list has even been used by teachers – for grammar lessons at the Dallas Theological Seminary, and in a political science class at George Washington University! An Italian teacher of English in Agnone, Isernia, recently called the list “brilliant.” (Disclosure: she happens to be Mr. A few years ago, a marketing expert convinced Visco to turn “How to Write Good” and its sequels into posters and such. So, Visco hired the brilliant graphic designer/art director Laura Aloisio http://dandeliondesigninc.com/, and the results are at cafepress.com/writegood.
