True wording things helps a lot, but that's a pretty extreme action, done when you're really frustrated. What I found is that using automatic formatting aids - syntax highlighting/coloring, autoindenting, all that fancy silly stuff, helps you A LOT.

Bugs/typos like this:
/* The main loop begins here. /*
become the most horrible bane after 3-4 hours of coding, and even though leaving things till tomorrow usually fixes them, you can save a lot of time and nerves with syntax highlighting editor which will immediately show HOW MUCH is really commented off.

And stuff like:

for(i=1;i<x;i++);
    thing1();
    thing2();

come out immediately with autoindenter. Also running stuff through a compiler with all warnings enabled often help ("Did you really mean = and not == in if(a=b){...? )
One more thing: Find matching bracket. Sometimes the end of your function looks like this:

                    }
                }
            }
            count++;
        }
    }
    return x;
}

Either you discipline yourself to comment each closing bracket, or just check which bracket closes what before introducing changes.