There were a lot of dos and don'ts, with examples: 'get in, get out' (Raymond Carver), not what I'm doing here, obviously; 'unbloat your plot' (Colum McCann); 'never open a book with weather' (Elmore Leonard); 'keep your exclamation marks under control (Elmore Leonard again!); 'do not place a photgraph of your favourite author on your desk, especially if the author is one of the famous ones who committed suicide' (Roddy Doyle).

It may be figured as a vertical process, one of rise or fall; fall of value or vulgarization being on the whole more in evidence in the special field of folk-lore than rise of value or devulgarization.

Entering the hotel they tossed off a glass of wine apiece, bemouthed a cigar, and directed the landlord to provide the best game supper in his power.

Farthest from the dim red dwarf Ondeste, the ice dwarf Maisuth has attracted no interest beyond a cursory flyby by automated probe in 1874. No significant resources were noted.