Author Verlyn Klinkenborg:
You may notice, as you write, that sentences often volunteer a shape of their own
And supply their own words as if they anticipated your thinking.
Those sentences are nearly always unacceptable,
Dull and unvarying, yielding only a small number of possible structures
And only the most predictable phrases, the inevitable clichés…The writer’s job isn’t accepting sentences.
The job is making them, word by word.Volunteer sentences,
Volunteer subjects,
Volunteer structures.
Avoid them all.
Source: Several short sentences about writing and Beware the volunteer sentence [via Myq Kaplan]
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