Write like a writer

If you want to be recognized as a "writer," there's no proscribed wardrobe, no preferred, or a sexy alias or pen name. Having published four textbooks and two novels, I have some advice for the aspiring writers. First, the basics. You must, you absolutely must know when and why to use the following items the way successful (that means published)writers use them:  it/it's, there/their/they're, to/two/too. Treat the languages with care and precision. In the last six weeks I've recorded these unconventional usages:   1. The nerve of the person who lives below Tom and I . . . 2. My son and I was conversing... 3. People allow "X" to run there life... 4. I probably should have went to a restaurant . . . Sentences like these will stop an editor from reading further in a manuscript. Any consideration of the  manuscript will end, full stop. "but I'm an informal blogger" is no excuse! "But I'm merely commenting on a book in goodreads, The Reading Room," and the like is no excuse! Writers who are recognized as writers write like writers, not 7th graders.