Is your egg ready to hatch? Know the subject -- "The party to whom I am speaking": know the audience -- Get with the program: the organized writer -- Commencement address: the first few words -- From here to uncertainty: how am I doing? -- Pompous circumstances: hold the baloney -- The life of the party: verbs that zing -- Call waiting: putting the subject on hold -- Now, where were we? A time and a place for everything -- The it parade: pronoun pileups -- Smothering heights: misbehaving modifiers -- Too marvelous for words: the sensible sentence -- Made for each other: well-matched sentences -- Give me a break: thinking in paragraphs -- The elongated yellow fruit: fear of repetition -- Training wheels: belaboring the obvious -- Critique of poor reason: the art of making sense -- Grammar Moses: thou shalt not embarrass thyself-- Down for the count: when the numbers don't add up -- Lost horizon: what's the point of view? -- Wimping out: the backward writer -- Everybody's favorite subject: I, me, my -- Promises, promises: making them, keeping them -- You got rhythm: writing to the beat -- The human comedy: what's so funny? -- I second that emotion: once more, with feeling -- The importance of being honest: leveling with the reader -- Once around the block: what to do when you're stuck -- Debt before dishonor: how and what to borrow -- Revise and consent: getting to the finish line.