This will be short and sweet.
DO NOT use ellipses (...) unless showing a section of a quote from which words have been excised by an editor.
DO NOT use exclamation points outside quotation marks, and try to avoid them within, unless someone is screaming.
DO NOT confuse its and it's. The first is possessive, the second a contraction.
DO use short sentences.
DO use simple language.
DO learn the difference between a colon and a semi-colon.
DO read more.
Finally, DO weight story and character over everything else. Description, plot, theme, language, tone, everything else is a distant third. And yes, I do differentiate plot and story. A story is "what if men could fly at will" while a plot is a boring mechanical framework someone stretches that question over like a bloodied hide, forcing it into an unnatural shape.
Keep writing.
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