How to dress your story

Context, convention and circumstance are all. Let me repeat. Context, convention and circumstance are all. When a writer seeks to make money, it is wise to "dress up" language based on who is paying and how much is being offered. But language does not need a suit and tie or sparkles. Over dressed language is just as hard to sell as under-dressed.

The correct attire at GGP is simple, straight-forward sentence structure with a strong story arc and pace. Keep your subjects and verbs close together. Put the main idea of your sentence at the front of the sentence most of the time. (Don't hide it behind prepositions and phrases, except for variation.) The same goes for tense. Keep it straightforward most of the time, and stir it some of the time. Don't get fancy with modifiers. Above all, tell us a great story from beginning to end.